Richard Cressey 08/12/09 Having read this article today, I am once again filled with dislike, albeit personal, biased and subjective dislike, for Hazel Blears. Ms. Blears comments are selfish and damaging to a party she claims to love.…[Continue Reading]
(It’s not all) Doom and Gloom in the Heartlands
Richard Cressey (1/12/09) Having been out and about campaigning for Labour Party candidates in both Sheffield and Manchester this week, I got a sense of core Labour voters’ attitudes to both the party and the current state of politics…[Continue reading]
Labour’s Uphill Struggle
Richard Cressey (17/11/09) Labour’s victory in Glasgow North-East last week was a symbolic, if expected, triumph in a constituency among the most deprived in the country. For all the talk of a ‘negative’ campaign, a 7,000 majority is clearly a ringing endorsement of Labour’s record. However, elections are not won on past achievements, which is [...]
Miliband’s approval: another reason not to appoint Blair as European Council President
Siobhán Gabriella Gibney (28/10/09) Having recently assured the public that he has no ambitions to be new High Representative for CFSP (huge sighs of relief across the continent), David Miliband has just made a strong pitch for Tony Blair to be European Council President. Shocking – one Labour politician supporting another’s sly bid for the [...]
Gordon Brown: Home and Away
Richard Cressey (22/10/09) All the talk of postal strikes, continuing recession and the BBC’s decision to give Nick Griffin a spot on Question Time, have overshadowed the upcoming Copenhagen Conference on climate change. If, as many people say, the UK has adopted a presidential style of leadership over recent years; then the day to day [...]
