1) For most of the duration between the first debate and the election, I was pretty convinced that the poll numbers were soft. Various reasons ( Read more... )

In the past month or so, the suggestions from politicos for how Labour should attack the Tories are that they should focus on Cameron vs the party. The biggest example is that David Cameron says he loves the NHS, but members of the Tory party goes on about how awful it is on US telly or suggests that someone who's off work ill should pay £10 to ( Read more... )

... if Daniel Hannan had arranged the attack on David Blunkett? His acceptance speech is up there with David Mellor losing his seat, in my mind.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8088541.stmHe quoted from Dr Seuss: "You can go by foot, you can go by cow, ( Read more... )

Oh happy day.

BREAKING NEWS: Communities Secretary Hazel Blears has resigned from the cabinetHazel Blears resigns from cabinet ( Read more... )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8033388.stm Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has become the latest cabinet minister to come to Gordon Brown's defence, amid continuing speculation about his leadership ( Read more... )

Jebus.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tory-lead-cut-as...Tory lead cut as Labour faithful return to the fold

Labour has narrowed the Conservative Party's poll lead to just one point as the "Brown bounce" continues, according to a ComRes survey for The Independent.
...
Tories 37 (-2)
Labour 36 (+5Lib Dem 17 (+1 ( Read more... )

See, if Gordon Brown really is leading a zombie government, damnit, I might vote for it.

Wouldn't it be cool having Hazel Blears with body parts falling off? Ruth Kelly dripping gore from her teeth? Alistair Darling looking exactly the same?

Cool.

Or, as he and the BBC put it, to "rethink New Labour policy".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7606374.stm In an article for The Monitor, Mr Brown said global and domestic challenges had changed since the party came to power ( Read more... )

Gordon Brown is rebranding it as a division of Linguaphone.


( Read more... )

With apologies to Kate Bush, and those of you with musical taste.

Claiming we'd help the country's poor ( Read more... )