UK Politics

UK Politics

With a hung parliament a serious possibility after the May 6th general election, we could see a coalition government between either the Labour party and the Lib Dems or the Conservative party and the Lib Dems. This throws up the potential of a mixed party government with what would normally be shadow ministers in important [...]

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No big surprise the general election has been called by Prime Minister Gordon Brown for May 6th 2010. Parliament will dissolve on April 12th 2010. One full month of general election campaigning to look forward to and it looks like they are going to go on the negative based on recent Conservative and Labour campaign [...]

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During Wednesday’s Prime Ministers Question Time, the opposition leader David Cameron stated he wants Unite Trade Union members to cross the picket lines and go to work and wanted Prime Minister Gordon Brown to make the same statement. Around 90% of the Unite trade union members voted to go on strike if British Airways management [...]

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To traditional Labour voters and those that care about workers rights and the NHS who have voted Labour in the past and are planning to vote Conservative at the general election. I don’t think Labour’s done a particularly good job in many areas of government, but they do have their successes as well like the [...]

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Time for a bit of political fun. I’ve persuaded my youngest son (13) who plans to be an artist to create some political cartoons and captions. His first attempt at a political cartoon is below. Political Cartoon Gordon Brown and George Osborne in Daycare He wanted to add his own caption/joke, but I persuaded him [...]

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Dear Conservative Shadow Cabinet and Conservative Blue Blog Moderator Earlier this month I made a comment at the Conservative Blue blog, specifically in response to this blog post:http://blog.conservatives.com/index.php/2010/02/02/ask-me-your-questions-on-the-economy/ I think you’ll agree a blog post titled “Ask me your questions on the economy” by George Osborne (Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer and Conservative General Election [...]

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The UK general election is expected on May 6 2010, where around 45 million eligible voters will place a single X against the political party/candidate they want to represent them for up to 5 years. With our current first past the post electoral vote system only the candidate with the most votes in each of [...]

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At the up coming UK general election there’s a realistic possibility of a hung parliament. All serious polls point to a Conservative election win, but with UKIP’s strong showing in the 2009 EU elections and the Tories appearing to be turning their back on Euroscepticism, could Eurosceptic UKIP split the Conservative vote (Eurosceptic Conservative MPs [...]

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