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Give your vote… if you’re so disaffected
Via Liberal Conspiracy:
The Give Your Vote Campaign is one of the maddest, most mind-boggling, most potentially revolutionary ideas to come out of the internet age in Britain so far. The concept is simple: if you don’t see the point of using your vote yourself, as is the case for many Disaffected Yoofs, then you can [...]
One law for ALL… and that includes politicians
According to many commentators, Britain’s politicians still don’t get it. On one hand, they make the laws in Parliament where the rest of us have to obey. On the other they argue that many of these same laws do not apply to them.
Witness the spectacle of seeing four parliamentarians in court in relation to their [...]
Voting against the wreckers?
Just about sums up the mood of the world at the moment…
UPDATE: 62 per cent of electors defy insurgency to vote in Iraq’s recent general election. You can bet that fewer than 50 per cent will even bother turning out to vote in Britain’s own general election.
Will we defy terminal cynicism in order to change [...]
Ex Labour leader Michael Foot dies
A sad day for British politics. Read here.
Micheal Foot was a political titan, who became Labour’s last-ever socialist leader in 1980. Throughout his leadership, he had to suffer both derision from both political foes and allies alike, and the mass defection of many MPs to the short-lived Social Democratic Party in 1981. Despite seeing the [...]
‘Entryism’ into Labour is nothing new
Many parts of the media, and the blogosphere are getting their knickers in a twist over allegations that a radical Islamist group has infiltrated sections of the Labour Party in East London.
Channel 4 TV’s Dispatches programme on Monday investigated claims that members of the Islamic forum of Europe have been able to get into positions [...]
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