Garbo
Garbo is The Wardman Wire's Political Editor.
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He can be contacted directly on poliblogsAThotmail.co.uk for all queries including media and blogging inquiries. Crime at lowest level – the figures must be wrong, Labour were in power not the Tories! Time to shift the goalpost.
The coalition are greeting today’s news that crime has fallen to its lowest ever level (since records began in 1981, anyway!) not by congratulating police forces but by slamming the figures as clearly wrong.
I can understand that the headline of crime falling by 43% under Labour is an uncomfortable one for a party that tried [...]
All the parties in it for themselves on electoral reform by Garbo
Partisan debate is alive and well
Watching the three main parties debate electoral reform is the perfect advert for anyone who wants to argue that politicians are all rotten. All of them claim to have the perfect answer though it just so happens that the perfect and most fair answer is also the one that [...]
The AV conundrum by Garbo
So the programme for a referendum on voting reform – AV to be precise – has been announced. After all the incredible u-turns and manifesto pledges the Lib Dems have given up to the Tories, electoral reform was one of the few areas that they felt they had got something out of the deal.
With [...]
