So, the new leader of the Labour Party is Ed Milliband, who beat his brother Dave by the narrowest of margins ( Read more... )

( Cut for total lack of any real interest in UK politics outside the UK )

In case you haven't heard, Brown is stepping down as Labour leader.

Well, GOOD!

He should never have been prime minister in the first place. If he hadn't been, Labour might actually have won that one!

Seriously, that was not a popular vote for the Conservatives, it was a popular vote against Gordon Brown ( Read more... )

Hung parliament. It's been official since about midday when Labour held just enough seats to stop the Tories winning a majority. The Tories do have the largest number of seats, but in order to get any legislation through they will need to keep the Lib-Dems on-side ( Read more... )

I just read an election manifesto leaflet from The Common Sense Party. Quite honestly, there wasn't anything there I was totally opposed to. One or two policies I thought were borderline, like reducing net immigration to zero and sending home anyone who "doesn't belong here" (Sounds good in theory, but in practice could be very similar to BNP ( Read more... )

Connie went back to work on Thursday. She is feeling up to it but only just. Came home Thursday feeling blah, came home yesterday feeling shattered. Mind you, I feel like that every evening ( Read more... )

This cartoon was published on 5th November 2008.

I think it's quite telling. Give the guy a chance, huh?

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It seems to me that, as the rest of the world finally looses its favourite pass time of "Bush-Bashing", so the USA has taken up a new one. "Obama-Bashing ( Read more... )

On the news this morning, an Israeli officer wanted for alleged war crimes was allowed to escape arrest. This all happened back in September 2005, but for some reason made the news today... Why is anyone's guess ( Read more... )

Michael Howard has finally stepped down as leader of the Conservative party. He will be missed by all Labour supporters!

He did a marvelous job of leading his party to it's third successive election defeat earlier this year!

His successor will be one of a number of Tory MPs who have put themselves forward ( Read more... )