Banging his fist with the smack of firm government, Cameron warned the energy companies yesterday that those who engaged in oil price-fixing will face the “full force of the law”. Oh yeah? They must be quaking in their boots. Just 4 months ago when there was a huge public outcry at the surge in petrol [...]
Posts Tagged ‘David Cameron’
Is Cameron the least accountable PM ever?
Apr 17th, 2013 by Jon Lansman.Is Cameron the least accountable PM ever? At least in terms of answering the questions asked by MPs. I’m not just talking about the way he evades so many questions, but the number of times he even faces Ed Miliband. The last PMQs were on 20 March before the budget. There have been none since [...]
I’ve just been to protest about the bedroom tax at the PM’s 10-bedroom country house
Apr 5th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.Together with David Winnick MP and Kelvin Hopkins MP, I’ve just been to protest about the government’s Bedroom Tax at the Prime Minister’s official residence at Chequers in Buckinghamshire. We called on Cameron to pay the Bedroom Tax on his 10 spare bedrooms at Chequers – this is what we said in our letter: Bookmarks Hide Sites
Cameron forced to backtrack over Leveson
Mar 18th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.ameron has just, shortly before 1pm today, conceded a deal over the Leveson proposals for press regulation which provides for everything that the Labour & LibDem parties were demanding. He did that, not because he believes it, but because he knew he would lose the vote and will do anything to avoid the humiliation of [...]
Leveson: Cameron enters the unknown
Mar 17th, 2013 by Michael Meacher.It would be interesting to know exactly what was the deal reached between the Prime Minister and the newspaper publishers over his forcing a decisive vote on Leveson on Monday since this is a very high-risk strategy. Since he must know he will be defeated both in the Commons and Lords on this issue, there [...]
Can David Cameron ignore the Right of his party for much longer?
Mar 12th, 2013 by Carl Packman.A new set of results from a Guardian/ICM poll has found that the Conservatives would be more appealing to the electorate if they took more hardline positions on social affairs, which will come as a great disappointment both to the political left, as well as loyalists to David Cameron who take a more liberal stance [...]
No “lurch to the right”?
Mar 4th, 2013 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.I’m often struck by how quickly government pronouncements and promises come undone thanks to its own side. Take yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph as a case in point. It featured an article by Dave in which he rules out any “lurch to the right“, as a response to his party’s spanking by UKIP in Eastleigh. Dave writes “It’s not about [...]
Don’t exaggerate the UKIP threat
Mar 4th, 2013 by David Osler.British parliamentary contests are described as first past the post for a reason, and the reason is that coming second does not get you a seat at Westminster. Yet somehow UKIP is basking in a spectacular degree of favourable publicity through the simple expedient of losing the Eastleigh by-election. One factor at work is that many [...]
On Eastleigh, or the return of the right wing protest vote
Mar 1st, 2013 by Carl Packman.David Cameron, before Michael Gove announced that his brand of liberal Conservatism was not for turning, has been heard saying that the way in which to look at the Eastleigh by-election results is as a protest vote. With this much he is right, but perhaps not in the way he imagines. Firstly it should be [...]
Cameron’s dilemma on marriage equality
Feb 4th, 2013 by Andy Newman.It is amusing to see the Tories tearing themselves apart over gay marriage. After all this is the party who introduced the homophobic Clause 28, and now Cameron is seeking to drive the agenda despite the Conservative Party not having included gay marriage in their manisfesto. There is a political minefield here for the Tories, where public opinion [...]
