David Vaiani (10/11/09) I apologise for revisiting this issue, but the Tories’ approach to selecting parliamentary candidates is very important. The composition of the House of Commons is at the very heart of our democratic system, because the quality of our legislators has a direct impact on how well our country is governed. It is [...]
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 [...]
Accountable to the people, representative of the people.
Louis Connor Bar the current fixation on spending cuts and whether they are going be ‘kind’, ‘savage’ or ‘sustainable’, when did Parliamentary reform slip off the political agenda? When the MPs’ expenses scandal was unravelling one could be forgiven for thinking we were on the cusp of wholesale constitutional, electoral and parliamentary reform. Yet following [...]
