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The election in Oldham and Saddleworth, will it be a judgement on Miliband or on Cameron? On Clegg or on all of them? Not exactly prime Conservative territory there are a large number of fringe parties. Voter turn out is always contentious, at what level does democracy really stop? If less than 50% bother is there in any real sense a mandate?

It was awful. An end of the line town, chav feral youths skulk under Burberry baseball caps trying to spit on seagulls. Not even junkies liked Bognor. I attended the Armistice Day ceremony there years ago. P.C Plod trying to march. Unintentionally funny. They cried when they didn't get the Queens Jubilee Medal, they thought they were "armed forces ( Read more... )

Disappointing to see Brown still clinging to his last chance at keeping his regime afloat. The Purple revolution gathers pace, with slogans such as "My Vote Counts" (not in the U.K, comrade), and valiant attempts by organisations such as Power 2010 to bring about a better future. Electoral reform is now taking centre stage and will herald the ( Read more... )

3,500 new criminal offences. Demonstrations illegal. Introduction of internment without trial. Abolition of trial by jury. Ending the right to silence. Extradition to the U.S without due process. Collusion in extraordinary rendition (delete, insert kidnapping) and collusion in torture ( Read more... )

The Crime & Security Bill 2010 drives a coach and horses through legislation passed in Strasbourg by the ECHR. Firstly, it is illegal to retain DNA samples from innocent people. Secondly the "12 year rule, no, 6 year rule" flies in the face of International Law. Scotland manages with a mere THREE years ruling ( Read more... )

"The rapture" is used by evangelical Christians to describe "the righteous" ascending to heaven. Nick Clegg and the Liberals are rolling up the Siegfried Line and giving Brown an "Untergang" (Downfall) moment. Erstwhile biographers hurriedly burn any evidence hoping the Red Army, sorry, Liberals, will not find anything incriminating. Now to the ( Read more... )

Eagle Eye versus Independent Minds. I noticed that the above feed contains pure unadulterated adulation and support for ZaNuLabour but (wait for it) is repeated on our own fair section. Twice the blogs on the sanctity of Blair and why it was right to stiff hundreds of thousands of Asians. I feel an attack of the vapours coming on Rita, time to lie ( Read more... )

Parallels with "Untergang" (Downfall) grow apace with the dying days of the ZaNuLabour reich. Harriet Harman wants to push through legislation on (the illegal retention of) DNA. Having just got off the telephone after the longest (and possibly most important) conversation of my life my charitable side says "Don't bother Harman, it is a waste of ( Read more... )

Can you imagine the conversation? Selection of a Labour candidate for a seat with a real possibility of going to the BNP and it's "Mwah", "Mwah, Darling, Daddy thinks I ought to be an M.P. Could you possibly?" Looking at map. "I say, here is a funny little place. Sock? Stock?" A passing policy wonk coughs. "Stoke, sir". Tristam and Peter glare at ( Read more... )

The excellent Monbiot on The Grauniad is launching an attempt to arrest Tony Blair for war crimes, I hope he succeeds. The website is http://www.arrestblair.org so for my first blog today I wish to concentrate on this issue. The thing with Blair and his ilk is that they introduced a new law ( Read more... )