Over here in Ladywood, if it wasn’t for the televised party leaders’ debates, we wouldn’t actually know there’s an election going on. Barely any posters can be seen (I’ve seen just two, in the same site on Summer Row), there have been no cars driving around with megaphones, few of us have had any leaflets [...]
“Britain’s First Past The Post voting system could be scrapped if Labour wins the general election, under plans which have been outlined by Gordon Brown. The prime minister wants a referendum on changing to an Alternative Vote system, where candidates are ranked in order of voters’ preference”. Whereas superficially this proposed referendum to move to [...]
“The British armed forces could be forced to shrink by up to a fifth because of a lack of money, a military think tank has predicted. The Royal United Services Institute said the number of trained military personnel could fall from 175,000 to little more than 140,000 by 2016″. So? It’s already widely discussed that [...]
“The home secretary has said he will back any request from police or local government to ban an Islamic group marching through Wootton Bassett. Alan Johnson said he felt ‘revulsion’ at the thought of Islam4UK’s proposed march through the Wiltshire town”. Now indeed, it is quite offensive that the group is indeed planning on holding [...]
“Speaking on US network CNN’s State of the Union, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm Mike Mullen said: ‘This is obviously a political decision. On the same programme, influential Senators Joe Lieberman and Ben Cardin questioned whether the move had been made to improve British-Libyan trade”. There has indeed been a lot of anger [...]
Not which party, but on what basis – did you vote on the European issues, on national issues, or what? I may add some kind of analytical comment on the results later, if it warrants it.
“Gordon Brown is said to be ‘very concerned’ about allegations ex minister Elliot Morley claimed £16,000 expenses on a loan he had already paid. Mr Morley has said it was a ‘mistake’ and has paid the money back – but his future as a Labour MP may be in doubt”.