There have been signs recently that ministers are slipping back into the policy-by-headline mindset that defined the last Labour government. We're seeing the sorts of policies that lack evidence, are launched without any detail on timetables or implementation, and are usually geared around an initiative — if possible, a pilot or a local trial that is short-lived and guaranteed not to al...
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Spectator on 30th Jan 2012 (via spectator.co.uk)
There has been a festival of beating up on Mr Hester at the RBS's bonus that the last Labour government authorised. Since much of left wing politics is based on the unjustifiable optimism of lefties brains combined with their rejection of God and all morality ( though they are too igniorant to realise it ) they can be forgiven for using envy in the way little Red Ed has been doing. Nick Clegg...
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ManInAShed on 29th Jan 2012 (via atoryblog.blogspot.com)
David Lammy says in today's Mail on Sunday: Many of my constituents came up to me after the riots and blamed the Labour Government, saying, “You guys stopped us being able to smack our children.” I suspect I know what he's referring to.
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LiberalConspiracy on 29th Jan 2012 (via liberalconspiracy.org)
Mr John Redwood (Wokingham) (Con): I welcome anything that recognises that it is the role of shareholders and competitive markets to decide pay in companies. With that in mind, let us consider what happens where the Government are the shareholder. Will the Secretary of State remind us what deal the Labour Government signed up to
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JohnRedwood on 24th Jan 2012 (via johnredwoodsdiary.com)
The Coalition Government is currently coming under fire for cutting public sector pensions, but the truth is that pensions funding was cut 13 years ago by Gordon Brown when he launched his raid on pension schemes. Until the last Labour Government came into office the accrual of interest on pension funds was not taxed —
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 8th Jan 2012 (via libdemvoice.org)
For me, by far the worst aspect of the recent re-trial of the Stephen Lawrence murder case has been the fact that it demonstrates the dangers of the decision, by the former Labour government in the UK, to end the old double jeopardy rule, as discussed in some detail by the wonderfully named OutspokenRabbit blog. Unlike the writer Brendan O'Neill, a Marxist who writes at at the online journal ...
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Samizdata on 5th Jan 2012 (via samizdata.net)
In 1997 the Labour Party manifesto outlined that under a Labour government the House of Lords would be reformed so that “the right of hereditary Peers to sit and vote in the House of Lords will be ended by statute…“. It was clear that change appeared to be on the agenda and the House of
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 28th Dec 2011 (via libdemvoice.org)
I rarely write about party politics as I think it is a waste of time, given that the two and a half main parties in Westminster are largely interchangeable and simply despise them all with an icy passion. But I will make an exception today... Cameron, far from being a smart political operator, could not even gain a majority for his party against a detested Labour government at the last election. B...
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Samizdata on 12th Dec 2011 (via samizdata.net)