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ve become the target of choice for the opposition now that the budget and council tax freeze have gone through. As if on cue, out is being wheeled by Labour and others the archetypal hard-working, 2-income family, whom we are being invited to believe will under LIT be left subsidising pensioners in ...
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e NUS, led by guys like Jim Murphy, Douglas Trainer and Richard Baker, was deeply unenthusiastic when it came to defending free education. Of course, Labour party policy at the time was to make students pay for their education, no matter what their personal financial circumstances were. Of the afore...
It says much about the state of Wendy Alexander's leadership of Labour in the Scottish Parliament that the best news she's had in months is that she's not going to jail. Deck the halls, hosanna in exelsis, let joy be unconfined etc ad nauseum... somehow, though, a wiping of the brow and a sigh of re...
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ch recent discourse on the subject “ by accepting an impermissible overseas donation, Wendy Alexander™s leadership campaign broke the law. Period.The Labour Party line until now has been that Wendy is confident that she will be cleared, not of breaking the law, but of any ˜intentional wrongdoing™. T...
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as the BBC World Service and the British Council. While refusals to accept the limitations of hard power - such as the Iraq misadventure - alongside Labour's blatant attacks on the independence of the BBC, have helped undermine British standing in the world, the reputation of those institutions end...
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her praise for Wendy Alexander's performance this week. In all honesty, apart from her from not being completely dreadful this week, I don't see what Labour really have to cheer about. It all seemed pretty ho-hum to me. Maybe it's the equivalent of applauding wildly, just because your team wins a th...
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rners, and cut by 2p for everyone else.So, that's a tax cut for the rich, and what™s left for the rest earning below £18,500? A higher tax bill¦Does Labour's hypocrisy and willingness to tell porkies about their opponents know no bounds? At least the SNP's local income tax would put some of the mon...
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makes grim reading for Gordon Brown. However, I've just got hold of the Scottish breakdown (It's a Westminster poll), which runs as follows:SNP - 35%Labour - 28%Con - 22%Lib Dem - 12%Usual health warnings about small sample sizes apply... but the high polling for the Tories aside, they're not so ve...
A few more thoughts on the Labour Independence referendum fiasco...Firstly, there's no good way to look at this for Labour. Basically, Wendy Alexander and Gordon Brown's positions are mutually irreconcilable. Something's gotta give, and as Alex Salmond says, it's most likely to be Wendy.Secondly, Br...
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his is liklely to have two very significant outcomes. Firstly, following their contortions regarding the bringing it on or otherwise of a referendum, Labour spokespeople have been spinning frantically that they support a referendum - it's the SNP which doesn't want an immediate vote, but that anyway...
From the Daily Record:LABOUR must tackle the SNP head on or "whimper out of existence," MSP Andy Kerr warned yesterday.He said: "Labour people who are in hand-to-hand combat with the SNP want to see me as leader of the party."This is a battle to the death with the SNP. That's how I see it and many p...
From the Daily Record:LABOUR must tackle the SNP head on or "whimper out of existence," MSP Andy Kerr warned yesterday.He said: "Labour people who are in hand-to-hand combat with the SNP want to see me as leader of the party."This is a battle to the death with the SNP. That's how I see it and many p...
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'National Conversation'. Initiated by Wendy Alexander, it represented a shift away from the 'no change' position on the constitution under which flag Labour sailed to defeat at the last election. Regular readers are probably already aware of my scepticism towards Calman, and more casual surfers wou...
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