And just like that my constituency disappears. Wrapping like a skeewiff cummerbund around the svelte middle of the Potteries, Stoke-on-Trent Central stretches from a hint of countryside up Stockton Brook way, and snugly grips Baddeley Green, Abbey Hulton, and Bentilee. It takes in Hanley which, confusingly for outsiders, is Stoke’s city centre (not Stoke town […]
Posts Tagged ‘Theresa May’
Theresa May’s leadership bid
Apr 28th, 2016 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.As the EU referendum battle gets nasty and Tory tears lumps out of Tory, spare a thought for the chancellor and the London mayor. At times these last six months, both men have had reason to believe their careers are sloping upwards. Number 10 has conceivably been in reach, but their grip on political gravity […]
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The Tory drive to self-destruction
Dec 29th, 2014 by Phil Burton-Cartledge.The Tory party is a peculiar beast. On the one hand, it’s adept at getting the wealthy to part with their cash by open and less transparent methods. And all this money bankrolls a machine that has been and will continue to flood the key marginals with glossy, high production value literature. The troops are […]
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Non-deportation of foreign prisoners shows huge incompetence of Theresa May
Oct 27th, 2014 by Michael Meacher.John Reid was right: the Home Office was “not fit for purpose”. We’ve now learnt it still isn’t. The NAO report into the huge Home Office muddle over deportation of foreign criminals is a textbook of persisting ineptitude which points the finger directly at the Home Secretary, Theresa May. It’s not as though she wasn’t […]
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Despite Snowden May won’t take no for any answer over mass surveillance
Oct 8th, 2014 by Michael Meacher.The security services are getting desperate. Over the last 4 years they, and their political figurehead May, have tried time and time again to push mass surveillance through Parliament. Whenever a security scare arises or a trial of alleged terrorists or belated arrests over a drugs scandal, the cry is always foisted on the public that […]
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Mayday, Mayday! Another police corruption case – blacklisting
Apr 24th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.Theresa May is apparently minded to order a fresh public inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence on the grounds that a secret Scotland Yard report questioning the conduct and integrity of a police chief involved in the Lawrence case was not given to the Macpherson inquiry in 1998. She is anxious that confidence in […]
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You know what some people call us
Mar 24th, 2012 by David Osler.You know what some people call us,’ Theresa May famously asked the Conservative Party conference four years ago. Many readers will be tempted to supply their own punchline to that point. But the correct answer, according to Ms May, was ‘the nasty party’. The Tories, she insisted were unrepentant, narrowly based, just plain unattractive. Her […]
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Who polices the police?
Jul 19th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.Establishing an inquiry into setting up a new code of police-media ethics, as Theresa May proposed yesterday, whilst welcome, is not going to resolve the profound derelictions of duty recently exposed in police behaviour at the highest level: failing in the face of abundant evidence which they themselves held to re-open the hacking inquiry in […]
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ASBOs: Coalition gets it right
Jul 29th, 2010 by Jon Lansman.Like Ken Clarke’s attack on the Michael Howard/New Labour bang ‘em up culture, Theresa May‘s indication that it’s “time to move beyond the ASBO” is absolutely right. It’s embarrassing once again that it comes from a Tory Minister (not even a Lib Dem one) and that, as with prison policy, two former Labour home secretaries, Alan Johnson […]
