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How one lie led to another – we’ll be clearing up the economic mess Clegg left
Nick Clegg falsified the story, thereby rewriting history. He then got himself into Government, and then ruined the country. It is easy to see the magnitude of Clegg’s failure when you refer...
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The “everyday”“stack-em-high” culture clearly doesn’t work for all of the NHS
Right-wing commentators always attack the NHS by saying that it mustn’t be treated as a “sacred cow”, like a “national religion”. The public don’t wish to see it as a business either. It is not...
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Cameron won’t get as far as holding a referendum in 2017, as he’ll have been...
The reply “The Tories just feel like crap managers” was in response to my recent question, “Do you think people are excited about politics?” Suzanne Moore instead suggested, “Yes but not the...
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Why not being able to organise a piss-up in a brewery suddenly matters
There’s one big problem with the branding of George Osborne as “The Austerity Chancellor”. That is, as a direct result of his own policies, he has made the economy much worse. Borrowing is going up,...
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If the Labour frontbench pull any further stunts like today, they deserve not...
It is thought that part of the reason that Ed Miliband was so keen to pursue ‘press regulation’ was that this was the first topic where there was a sense the public were on the side of victims....
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Even with an open goal, Labour insists on aiming for the crossbar
It’s become worse than embarrassing. Even with an open goal, Labour insists on aiming for the crossbar. The economy couldn’t be worse, people are experiencing massive social injustices, the workforce...
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A “decade of decline” is a problem, but so is Labour’s “buy now, pay later”...
A massive problem is that none of the political parties in the UK are trusted on the economy. Many ‘real’ Labour voters are tired and disgusted at Lord Mandelson’s desire to put the economy above...
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Why I still fully support Ed Miliband
We are a long way from a general election here in the UK, and it sort-of feels like we’re treading water. Whilst I originally was impatient that we were taking so much time choosing our leader,...
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I’m a Labour member who despairs over our leadership on welfare; and I’m not...
So what’s new? This is yet another article about Labour and welfare. George Osborne wanted a debate about welfare, but he wants people to be united against ‘shirkers’ staying in bed while good...
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What will a Miliband-Thatcher brand achieve?
Characterising the leadership of Margaret Thatcher is difficult. The problem is that, despite the perceived ‘successes’ of her tenure of government, her administration is generally accepted to...
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How Dr Eoin Clarke has done a huge amount of good in a short space of time
I have never written this post for a reason. That reason is that Twitter and Facebook are full of people, in my own party and beyond, who try desperately hard to belittle the hard work and sincere...
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The Bangladeshi fire explains why Tony Blair’s view of the NHS market is wrong
I am doing a Dan Hodges. But this time it is against his ideological pin-up Tony Blair, who knew the price of everything but the value of nothing. He was the future once, but now is not the time...
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The Tories have never had any ideology, so it’s not surprising they’ve run...
A lot of mileage can be made out of the ‘story’ that the Coalition has “run out of steam”, and this week two commentators, Martin Kettle and Allegra Stratton, branded the Queen’s Speech as ‘the...
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What more can Labour do?
There’s an old adage that a third of all the people who know you will love you, no matter what you do, a third of people will hate you, no matter what you do, and the rest will simply be...
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Outsourcing and the “modern anomie”
Jon Cruddas recently gave a progress report on how the evolution of ‘One Nation’ policy was going, In an article by Patrick Wintour published yesterday, Cruddas describes a ‘modern anomie’, a...
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Ed Miliband needs Labour to have a “differentiation strategy” of its own
Peter Hoskin in January 2012 famously in the Spectator published his version of the Richard Reeves’ famous “different strategy” of the Liberal Democrats as this parliament progressed. When I...
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Labour should have real solutions for the NHS not just treat it as a ‘vote...
You can always depend on the NHS. It’s always there for you. I’m not talking about how the NHS looks after you from the moment you are born to the moment you did. I am talking about the purely selfish...
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The article by Rachel Reeves MP is a ‘two fingers’ at disabled citizens, and...
It is actually massively upsetting. For many citizens, hardworking or not, Ed Miliband was finally beginning to show ‘green shoots’ in his leadership. His conference speech in Brighton...
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Will the catalysmic implosion of the market ideology now move onto the NHS?
This week, David Cameron MP mocked Ed Miliband MP for sounding like a person who’d rung up a radio show whingeing. Cameron replied, “And your problem is caller?” The problem is a complete collapse of...
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“All it takes for evil to succeed is for a few good men to do nothing…”
“All it takes for evil to succeed is for a few good men to do nothing…” is the famous saying by Edmund Burke. Burke despised the abuse of power, so one can only wonder what he would have made of the...
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