It is quite right that the News of the World phone hacking scandal is dominating the headlines — this is a watershed moment both in the media and in politics. However, there are other stories around and the government, under fire though it is, is having something of an easy ride over disastrous economic growth […]
Posts Tagged ‘David Cameron’
Ed Miliband must speak out against Cameron’s public sector proposals
Jul 12th, 2011 by Darrell Goodliffe.
ED kebabs Cameron and Maude over pensions
Jun 30th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Cameron and Maude. Kebabed by ED. Sadly, ED stands for Evan Davies — on this morning’s Today programme. But at least two other Eds should take note. They could do the same. David Cameron and Francis Maude were exposed as talking cobblers about public sector pensions. On Tuesday at the Local Government Association conference, David […]
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Who will stand up to the Daily Mail paper tigers?
Jun 23rd, 2011 by Michael Meacher.Cameron’s caving in yesterday to the deep and unpleasant prejudices of the hard-right retributionist lobby has banged shut the brief momentary expectation of a more liberal penal policy. The objective of cutting prison numbers by 6,500 (a fairly arbitrary proportion of the 85,000 currently detained) was removed by scrapping 50% discounts across the board (not […]
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Cameron’s quite the Grand Old Duke of York
Jun 20th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.As Oscar Wilde noted, losing one parent is a disaster, losing two is distinctly careless. Cameron might reflect on that. Backing off one policy may be serious, but backing off six, as he has done over the last few weeks, is beginning to look like a rather careless life-style. The latest one, yesterday, beating a […]
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Et tu, Brute
May 30th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.So even Alastair Darling has turned against Gordon Brown for the IMF job. But what is disturbing about all the jockeying and jostling now going on is the focus on the wrong criteria. This is not a position – ‘the world’s banker’ – to be decided on the basis of personality incompatibilities (Cameron-Brown) or on […]
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It’s PR in the Lords, not AV, that could save the skins of Lib Dem MPs
Apr 20th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.Political Scrapbook today reports that Lib Dem losers — Elwyn Watkins, two-time loser in Oldham East, and soon-to-lose leader of Sheffield Council, Paul Scriven — are to be given “ermine parachutes” in the House of Lords. Many more ermine parachutes could of course be available to Lib Dem MPs who lose their seats when the […]
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Libyan mission creep: Labour should back international law, not NATO
Apr 15th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.The three NATO leaders have now made clear their objective in Libya — and it is regime change and not the more limited objectives set by the UN. Regime change is not a legitimate objective for NATO’s leaders to determine. It is an entirely legitimate aspiration for the Libyan people. It could become a legitimate […]
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Polls show Cameron out of step with public on immigration
Apr 14th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.On the day that David Cameron puts immigration at the heart of political debate, two polling organisations show that he’s out of step with the public. Ipsos-MORI polling shows that race and immigrations is mentioned this month as an “important issue facing Britain today” by only 17% of the public, 9% down on last month […]
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“No more pointless reorganisations of the NHS”, Cameron promised
Apr 13th, 2011 by Jon Lansman.“No more pointless reorganisations of the NHS which aim for change but instead bring chaos”, he promised the Royal College of Nurses two years ago. How persuasive he must have been. Today they voted 478 t0 6 with 13 abstentions to reject the pointless and destructive reorganisation his government has now proposed. The British Medical […]
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LibDems censor Brokeback Britain
Mar 31st, 2011 by Jon Lansman.LibDem controlled Wrexham Council have banned the display of a picture depicting David Cameron and Nick Clegg as cowboys in an art exhibition at a council-run art gallery, claiming it is “too political to display in the run up to the Welsh Assembly elections“. The artist, Brain Jones, who has established a reputation for his politically […]
