UK Politics

Vince Cable is the new Business Secretary, one of five Liberal Democrats in David Cameron’s new coalition government. Vince Cable studied Economics at Cambridge University and gained a PhD in Economics from the University of Glasgow. He became an economic advisor to the Kenyan government in 1966 and advisor to the British government and then […]

George Osborne at 38, is the youngest Chancellor of the Exchequer for 125 years. Not bad for a graduate who wanted to be a journalist, but having failed to secure a job with a national newspaper found a job at Conservative Central Office and the rest is history. George Gideon Oliver Osborne has been the […]

We have a new deputy PM in the form of Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg. What does a Deputy Prime Minister do? The Deputy Prime Minister office is a relatively new post with the first Deputy Prime Minister being Labour’s Clement Attlee under Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s coalition war time government 1940-1945. When you think […]

Oh My God, they actually won, David Cameron and his vaguely horse-looking wife (just kidding :D), have stole Gordon Brown’s house stepped into 10 Downing Street. As for Nick Clegg he has been the most stupid politician in UK history, a Lib Con Govt is like chalk and cheese (it will never work) I just […]

Gordon Brown has just resigned as Prime Minister at the steps of 10 Downing Street. This means there’s a deal between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats and David Cameron will be our new Prime Minister. Gordon Brown’s Resignation Speech “As you know the general election left no party able to command a majority in […]

It would appear by the time we all head off to bed tonight the Conservatives under David Cameron will have or will be very close to a deal with Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrats to secure David Cameron as the new Prime Minister of Great Britain. As a Labour voter (though not a strong Labour supporter) […]

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has today announced he will step down as Labour leader just as soon as the Labour party can arrange a new leader: he mentioned he hopes the new leader would be in place before the Labour Party Conference which is 4 months from now. What this means is if the Conservative […]

With meetings between Senior Conservative and Liberal Democrat frontbenchers at the Cabinet Office apparently going amicably are we looking at an unlikely Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government allowing David Cameron to oust Gordon Brown as Prime Minister? Hard to believe with all the niceties we are seeing in the news between the Tories and […]

Whom ever ‘wins’ this general election I will send them a caricature of themselves via email. If it’s a coalition/hung parliament then the two party leaders will receive a picture via email of themselves winning :D. May the best leader win. 8) :D 8)

Election 2010 Political Highlights This election is not only the first I’ve studied/followed in depth but an interesting one. It all started at the polling booth with people being turned away, and having the first Green MP elected in the UK, we had some pathetic party election broadcasts like the tediously long Plaid Cymru advert […]

I’m going to throw out an idea mainly for Labour supporters to discuss, though I know it won’t only be Labour commenter’s :-) Considering Labour’s been in power 13 years, we’ve had two disastrous and very expensive wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, ~10 years of economic success followed by 3 years of economic strife (not […]

It’s Officially a Hung Parliament :D If you’ve watched the exit polls/results, then you have probably realised it’s a parliament. If your at home right now and scratching your head thinking “what’s a hung parliament?” well it means one party hasn’t got enough votes to establish a government on it’s own, so two parties join […]

The UK general election 2010 results are in. Below is a table of results for all political parties that gained at least one parliamentary constituency. What a complete surprise that the Liberal Democrat rise in the polls did not equate even to a significant increase in the share of the popular vote and actually resulted […]

With the opinion polls pointing to a three horse race for the first time in our life time, there might be a few shock results on election night on May 6th. It very much depends on where the new Lib Dem support is coming from, is it shared equally from the other parties or mainly […]

I’m traditionally a Labour voter, but recently I’ve found myself drawn to the Liberal Democrats. After the live TV leaders debates I’m hoping for a big swing to the Lib Dems from the Conservatives to keep the Tories out of government for at least another 5 years. The most recent polls shows a hung parliament […]

With a hung parliament looming and the most likely out come being a coalition government with the Lib Dems being the king makers, what will the Lib Dems expect for their support? Gordon Brown has already offered the Alternative Vote System, which isn’t a proportional representation form of voting system and is unlikely to be […]