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Westminster Watch

A valuable lesson goes unlearnt
Just a few days ago the polls closed down to just 5 points and the snap election chatter began to creep out again. And why not too? After all, if the Tories cannot do better than a five point lead with all that Gordon Brown and this Labour government have been [...]

Trevor was wrong
Last week Trevor Philips claimed that the Labour party is institutionally racist and that it would not elect a British Obama. What a load of old hogwash. Philips, always one to want to cause a bit of outrage is actually being very foolish in saying this – far from tackling racism, [...]

Today America speaks
Today the American people go to the polls to elect their 44th President. Incidentally, the next president will actually be the 43rd different man to serve (Grover Cleveland served two terms that were not back to back). But what impact will this have on British politics and how will it affect [...]

The government is not keeping up its side of the bargain
Last night I watched a programme called Jack: a Soldier’s Story. It was on BBC3 and I suspect it was a repeat – but it was the first time I had seen it. It was about a chap called Lance Corporal Jack Mizon [...]

The Dour one is smiling
It has been described as the economic 9/11. We are told it is the once in a life time economic crash – something we haven’t seen since 1929… if ever at all. The housing market has virtually seized up and we are now all less than proud owners of a [...]

No time for a novice or time to trust the man with a plan?
It’s back to business for our parliamentarians, and there is a lot of business to be done – not least saving capitalism and democracy as we know it. The tag lines and sound bites of the conference season already seem a [...]