Rebecca Coulson: My experience of hustings as a candidate in this election. And why they are important.
First, a left-wing health event. Second, immensely clever students at my old school. Third, a hustings about motorbikes, chaired by Lembit Opik.
First, a left-wing health event. Second, immensely clever students at my old school. Third, a hustings about motorbikes, chaired by Lembit Opik.
Plus: Tories – too vague. UKIP – too specific. LibDems: what are they for? Why the polls could all be wrong. And: I win an award, and am baffled.
Think of today’s two main parties led in 2015 by Nicholas Soames and Denis Healey and you are part of the way there.
Right to Buy is back, baby, And it’s magnificent.
Having failed to destroy the Union by turning Scottish voters against it, Salmond now proposes to do so by turning English ones against it instead.
Also: the DUP rule out any formal parliamentary arrangement with the SNP; and the Tories grant the Welsh Assembly powers of redefinition.
The city state’s stability is impressive. But it it bought at the price of stagnation.
I see it as important that the next administration should have an adequate Parliamentary majority in order to put the SNP in its place.
Take it all with a pinch of salt. Do your best and, cometh the hour, “treat those two imposters just the same”.
UKIP’s false dichotomies demand we become brutal to prove our loyalty to Britain. Doing so is indecent.
The inconvenient truth is this: the UK has significantly worse outcomes than many other advanced countries which deliver universal access to healthcare.
Also: What the DUP would have said in the leaders’ debate; and Plaid Cymru try to build on Wood’s boosted profile.
The Conservatives are doing what is right and doing it well – winning votes is a happy by-product of that approach.
To create work for all who want it, and a better life for our children and security for families. We can only do this with business.
Plus: CCHQ goes all Goebbels. I announce my peerage – replacing Lord Ashcroft. My political bias. Good luck to agents. And: am I an egotistical knob?