Posts Tagged ‘House of Lords’

We need a labour movement No to AV Campaign…

by Darrell Goodliffe.

The current clutch of opinion polls do not make pleasant reading for the No to AV camp. They are showing a clear momentum shift in the direction of a Yes vote with the ComRes poll showing Yes taking a 10% being the latest example of this. Of course, a high percentage of ‘dont know’s’ still exist (ComRes […]

Lords defeat for AV

by Andy Newman.

Last night House of Lords vote requiring a 40% turn out in the AV referendum creates a serious problem for the government. In order for there to be a referendum in May, then the enabling legislation needs to be passed by the end of next week, so while the Lords’s amendement could be reversed in the Commons and sent back, […]

Labour peers are going up in the world

by Jon Lansman.

There’s always been something a bit embarrassing about Labour peers, like those elderly relatives you try to avoid at a family event. Some of them, of course, have a worthy past, and a few of them work hard and take home less in expenses than they could for a senior political job on their local council. Rather […]

Republicanism – its about democracy…

by Darrell Goodliffe.

I was highly amused to read of the ‘threat’ posed by those dastardly union ‘barons’ to the Royal Wedding; it was correctly pointed out to me on Twitter when I tweeted my support that, given the fact that this event has already been deemed worthy of a Bank Holiday, this ‘threat’ is something of a hollow one. […]

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