Stephan Shakespeare is Chairman of the Network for the Post-Bureaucratic Age. Today at a gathering of the Network for the Post-Bureaucratic Age the Conservatives are launching their 'Tech Manifesto'. It contains a bold new commitment: a 'Right to Government Data'....
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CentreRight on 11th Mar 2010 (via conservativehome.blogs.com)
In the Freedom Zone at Party Conference, on Monday Sept 29th, I chaired a debate on the 2009 euro-manifesto, with a range of euro-candidates, plus major Party donor Stuart Wheeler. The Candidates were John (”Give Europe some Flack”) Flack from Eastern England; Jean-Paul Floru from London (how cool would it be to send a Belgian
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RogerHelmer on 1st Oct 2008 (via rogerhelmermep.wordpress.com)
Welsh Conservatives launch their election manifesto later, promising to end Labour's "poverty of ambition" for Wales.
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BBCPolitics on 16th Apr 2010 (via news.bbc.co.uk)
Sheffield South East MP, Clive Betts, today welcomed the announcement that the Government has decided to proceed with building the 'Y' shaped High Speed rail network network. Clive Betts said: "I'm delighted that the Conservatives have seen sense at last and agreed that the only sensible and viable proposal for the High Speed rail network was the one proposed by the independent HS2 ...
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LabourMatters on 6th Oct 2010 (via labourmatters.com)
Over at The Guardian’s Comment is Free website, former Liberal party leader Lord (David) Steel offers his reasons for supporting the coalition government of Lib Dems and Conservatives: We have successfully injected parts of the Lib Dem manifesto into the government programme and outlawed parts of the Tory manifesto, most notably bringing tax reductions to the
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LiberalDemocratVoice on 16th May 2010 (via libdemvoice.org)
Network Rail is set to be opened up to freedom of information requests for the first time amid a flurry of potentially damaging allegations about its senior staff
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FT on 6th Aug 2010 (via ft.com)
Colleges will get greater freedom to choose what they teach if the Conservatives get back into government, they were promised today. The government should give further education the sort of leeway universities get, and trust it to respond to local needs, said David Willetts, shadow secretary for skills. He promised college principals an end to the frequent policy switches that Labour had forced on...
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Guardian on 19th Nov 2008 (via guardian.co.uk)
Thurrock District Council has upgraded its network cabling at its Civic Offices in Grays, Essex to the CAT6 standard using Freedom, a converged solution provider.
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PublicTechnology on 10th Nov 2008 (via publictechnology.net)
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The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) today say that the Conservatives' manifesto is "incomplete at best and misleading at worst" on the issue of tax credit cuts and that, including some of the election giveaways that the Conservatives have still not set out proper funding plans for, the Conservatives' tax and benefit policies are "regressive" overall. Yvette Cooper, Labour's Work ...
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LabourMatters on 27th Apr 2010 (via labourmatters.com)
A new Tory manifesto is being written as the party prepares for the next general election, David Cameron revealed, as the Conservatives regained a double-digit lead in the polls
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FT on 13th Jan 2009 (via traxfer.ft.com)
I just had a look for Labours’ manifesto. As I typed Google suggested ‘Labour manifesto 2010′ so I went with that. A very poor show from Labour, I must say (click to enlarge) … Nothing from Labour, who came in at seventh and a bit of a WIN for the Conservatives coming in with the front
