Sometimes I feel quite sorry for Gordon Brown. I have plenty of fundamental problems with his politics but sometimes he just can’t catch a break. Thankfully I’m rational enough not to base my vote on how lucky the candidates seem to be. Brown has joined a long line of politicians caught saying things in private [...]
Archive of entries posted on April 2010
Interesting Times
The election race in my constituency just got a lot more interesting. The suspension of the local Labour candidate offers up some interesting options for the voters. While the Tory incumbent has a fairly healthy majority he does benefit from a splitting of the opposition vote. Despite kicking the candidate out (who would never win [...]
Seconds out, round two
The knives are well and truly out for Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats ahead of tonight’s debate. They can’t exactly complain now they have been propelled from third party to potential front-runners (modulo electoral effects). While the “scrutiny” offered by the British press is predictably smear-like I’m hoping it’s policies that will come under [...]
Apropos my last post
Struck by a desire to know I penned the following: Dear Geoffrey Van Orden, Richard Howitt, Stuart Agnew, David Campbell Bannerman, Vicky Ford, Andrew Duff and Robert Sturdy, I noted with interest today the news that the EU transport ministers held a video-conference to discuss the response to the paralysis of the air transport network [...]
The shape of things to come?
The ramifications of the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull continue to rumble on as people suddenly find themselves stranded and reminded that the Earth is actually quite a big place. Meanwhile it’s news that EU ministers co-ordinating a response has a video conference to discuss the response to the transport paralysis. I find it interesting that the [...]
Post Match Analysis
Our polling cards arrived this morning. Now I know I can vote I’m still a little conflicted about who to vote for. Last night I tuned into ITV to see if I can clear up that confusion. The debate was certainly livelier than the chancellors debate. Part of that was down to the aggressiveness of [...]
Almost
Reading through the bullet summary of the Lib Dems manifesto I was struck at how well it aligned with the Tory proposals on political reform (smaller House of Commons). There are a number of other good proposals including per-flight instead of per-passenger flight tax, local income tax, shared parental leave (similar to Tory proposals). There [...]
Dirty Election
It looks like it’s shaping up to be a very dirty election. The latest scare tactic involving cancer treatment also raised question about how the leaflets were targeted. The Labour party seem to be working very hard to promote the image of posh Tories waxing their moustaches between looking for puppies to kick. Health care [...]
Sunshine, sand and spades
My muscles are currently protesting but not quite as much as post-Snowdon. We took advantage of a lovely sunny weekend to start planting some fruit and vegetables in our new veg patch. It turns out that the hardstand for the out-building actually extends much further out into the area we want to turn into our [...]
