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 [...]
The Labour Party R.I.P – Former Party of Government.
Louis Connor (19/10/09) The election of David Cameron as Prime Minister, coupled with his plans to reduce the size of Parliament by 10%, and the pressure on the devolved budgets will all conspire to increase the momentum behind calls from the SNP to hold a referendum on Scottish independence sometime in Spring/Summer 2010. A smaller [...]
Hot on the Sun: Labour and that headline.
Richard Cressey 16/10/09 The Sun is the UK’s most popular (by circulation) daily newspaper, reaching over three million people each day. Whatever people think of it as a journalistic institution, it is undoubtedly part of the national makeup and it has been suggested that it can even decide the fate of elections. What does this mean for [...]
Lab Party Conference: Operation Fightback
Richard Cressey Last week’s Labour Party Conference has been hailed as the start of “Operation Fightback”, but the fightback will only work if it has the full backing of MP’s and activists alike. Labour needs to rekindle it’s core, working class, vote without further alienating the middle classes which have already started to slip back [...]
