22
Jun
Liberal Democrat Hypocrisy
So VAT is up to 20% next year and Nick Clegg has indicated that most Liberal Democrats will vote for it.
Hat/tip: DBH
22
Jun
A New Hope for the Centre Left?
By Tim Caswell
Labour leadership candidates Andy Burnham, Ed Balls, David Miliband, Ed Miliband and Diane Abbott. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty, David Levene, Toby Melville/Reuters, John Stillwell/PA, Martin Godwin
For the ninety-nine percent of the population who are not interested in party politics, people who are must seem like a religious sect. A dwindling band of brothers and sisters who think that their leader will lead them to the Promised Land – or at least a small majority in the House of commons.
Most people rank politicians’ visits to their homes as slightly more tedious than the Jehovah’s witnesses’ in the welcome stakes. We have one of the lowest turnouts in European elections and people under twenty-six hardly vote at all. But, political activists are eternal optimists. They find the whole process endlessly fascinating, and the choosing of a new leader is the highlight of their calendar. Let’s face it political parties are like a sect without the orange robes (the Liberal Democrats wear suits now that their leader has made friends with the other posh boys.
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