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Crime at lowest level – the figures must be wrong, Labour were in power not the Tories! Time to shift the goalpost.

Garbo — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:26:53 +0000

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 [...]

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Crime at lowest level – the figures must be wrong, Labour were in power not the Tories! Time to shift the goalpost.

Nick Clegg – “What mandate did they have, I didn’t vote for them?”

Garbo — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:47:40 +0000

Post from: The Wardman WireNick Clegg – “What mandate did they have, I didn’t vote for them?”

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Nick Clegg – “What mandate did they have, I didn’t vote for them?”

All the parties in it for themselves on electoral reform by Garbo

Garbo — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 11:32:44 +0000

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 [...]

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All the parties in it for themselves on electoral reform by Garbo

Wikio Overall Blog Rankings Preview for July 2010

Matt Wardman — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 02:00:27 +0000

These are the the overall Wikio blog rankings for the start of July, based on June data.

For politicos, Anna Raccoon has the preview of the political rankings.

1	Iain Dale's Diary (=)
2	Liberal Conspiracy (=)
3	Guy Fawkes' blog (=)
4	Liberal Democrat Voice (+1)
5	A Spoon Full of Sugar (+2)
6	Left Foot Forward (=)
7	ConservativeHome's ToryDiary (-3)
8	Cute Card Thursday (=)
9	Allsorts challenge blog (+2)
10	Cupcake Craft Challenges (+6)
11	Charisma Cardz (+3)
12	Labourlist (-2)
13	And another thing... (-4)
14	Papertake Weekly Challenge (+7)
15	Sketch saturday (-2)
16	Saturday Challenge (+1)
17	Just Magnolia (-2)
18	Stamping Ground (+9)
19	Creative Card Crew (+1)
20	Penny Black Saturday Challenge (+9)
21	One Stop Craft Challenge (+14)
22	Next Left (-3)
23	ABC challenge (+8)
24	UKPolling Report (-6)
25	Paul Waugh Politics (-3)
26	Daring Cardmakers (+14)
27	Crafty Creations Challenges (+22)
28	Truly Scrumptious (+14)
29	Harry's Place (-6)
30	Stampin' for the Weekend (+6)

Ranking by Wikio

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Wikio Overall Blog Rankings Preview for July 2010

Jonathan Bartley of Ekklesia. Interview for Salon Sunday #onlinepolitics

Matt Wardman — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:54:53 +0000

This evening's Salon Sunday interview is with Jon Bartley of the Ekklesia thinktank. We will be talking about website publicity, promotion and sponsorship. Ekklesia raises approximately £15k per year from it's website, in addition to using the site as a promotional tool, and further raises around £250k per year for charitable causes.

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Jonathan Bartley of Ekklesia. Interview for Salon Sunday #onlinepolitics

The AV conundrum by Garbo

Garbo — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:16:24 +0000

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 [...]

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The AV conundrum by Garbo

Who is right about the cuts – Tories or Labour? By Garbo

Garbo — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:10:58 +0000

There has been much furore over the past weeks and months over whether we should be cutting our deficit fast and hard or investing more money to stimulate growth to rise from the ashes. The recent Tory budget made it abundantly clear that they will be ruthless in their approach, promising to cut the deficit by [...]

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Who is right about the cuts – Tories or Labour? By Garbo

“Democracy Village” to be evicted – by Chris

Chris Hawes — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:34:00 +0000

A High Court judgement has been passed to evict the Parliament Square protestors from their so-called “Democracy Village” encampment. The action, brought by Mayor of London Boris Johnson, means that the squatters have until 4pm Friday to leave. Predictably, this is being called “a bad day for democracy” and that this decision has been made “at [...]

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