All a unionist party does by dissolving its British connections is signal to the electorate that the SNP are right.
To The Point returns to Labour’s past leadership elections.
Unlike every other victorious Labour leadership candidate of the past 30 years, he drew most of his support from party members and MPs.
It was perfectly possible to foresee where undecided voters were likely to go when at last they got round to making up their minds.
The nub of his case is that the long-term future of the Union is more important than this election campaign – which is, by its nature, short-term.
Labour plans new taxes on your family home and your pension – and he and Balls would like to tax death too.
The two main parties are making a big mistake by pitching their appeal at supporters of two minor ones – UKIP and the Greens.
He could have then called, and won, a second General Election. So why did he strike a deal with the Lib Dems?
Budgets remain hugely bloated
Over the past four decades or so, Labour has suffered a remarkable decline in its political biodiversity
Labour politicians still hark back to the fate of British industry in the 1980s, but they conveniently forget about the damage done by Gordon Brown’s boom-and-bust
A more targeted, more current, website is a good thing to have – but is it really necessary to delete the whole lot?
JP Floru is a City of Westminster Councillor and is the author of What the Immigrant Saw and Heavens on Earth: How to Create Mass Prosperity So what are the “cuddly” Greens up to nowadays? Caroline Lucas became the only ever Green MP when she was elected for Brighton Pavilion with a 1,252 majority in […]
The news that the British economy is growing again did not please everyone. Left-leaning economic commentators tried, but failed, to conceal their disappointment – desperately insisting that what’s happening is the wrong kind of growth. At so early a stage in the recovery it is surely too soon to come to any conclusion, positive or […]
We think they’re mistaken. They simply think we’re evil. And their error may have contributed to the failure of the polls.