The Sun reports a 5 point poll drop for the Conservatives which gives Labour a general election winning lead, were ballot held today. The short term cause of this is the banker and private sector/wealth creation bashing that master RedEd Miliband has been engaging in. You see he's getting the credit because instead of standing against him the Conservatives have tried to pretend they agree. Th...
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ManInAShed 22 hours ago (via atoryblog.blogspot.com)
Ed Miliband will today (Monday) accuse the Government of directly damaging frontline patient care with its unnecessary and unwanted top-down reorganisation of the NHS. Talking today about frontline pressure right across the NHS, he will point to new figures released by Labour that show the number of NHS nurses has now fallen by 3,500 since the general election and that indicate the total fall in n...
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LabourMatters 3 days ago (via labourmatters.com)
Deputy Prime Minister gave a wide-ranging interview to The House magazine, in which he discusses how it’s right for the two coalition parties to differentiate themselves once a stable government was formed: In the run-up to the general election, you may remember, the tabloids were screaming, saying that if there was a hung Parliament locusts
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 3rd Feb 2012 (via libdemvoice.org)
The bigger issue, however, is whether the bitterness generated over the last week in the hand-to-hand combat between the pair lingers through the remainder of the primaries and into the general election
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FT on 1st Feb 2012 (via ft.com)
Barack Obama’s State of the Union can best be described as the president’s biggest speech yet of the 2012 general election
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FT on 25th Jan 2012 (via ft.com)
The law should be changed before the next general election to allow anyone queuing at voting stations when polls close to cast their ballot, a report by peers says.
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BBCPolitics on 25th Jan 2012 (via bbc.co.uk)
Treasury chief secretary has authorised top salaries to be cut or frozen in 68 cases since the general election.
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FT on 24th Jan 2012 (via ft.com)
With a whoop and a holler the Guardian reports that Bjorn Lomborg's climate sceptic think tank is to close. Before anyone tells me, yes I know that "climate sceptic" is not a good description of Lomborg's opinions. The article itself is more accurate. It seems the Danish government cut off funding: ... Denmark's general election last year ushered in a new administration less keen to...
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Samizdata on 23rd Jan 2012 (via samizdata.net)
The Republican establishment will be horrified by the Gingrich victory because its members think he is unelectable and tarnished in a general election
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FT on 22nd Jan 2012 (via ft.com)
During the leaders debates before the last general election, David Cameron declared that he wanted to make immigration a non-issue and he would go about it by reducing immigration numbers from hundreds of thousands a year to tens of thousands a year. He hasn’t succeeded in the second objective — more than half a million people arrived here in 2010, only 30 per cent of whom were from th...
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Spectator on 20th Jan 2012 (via spectator.co.uk)