Grayling’s use of crime stats attacked by fact checkers
Chris Grayling said again today that violent crime has gone up under Labour. Two independent factcheck websites have undermined his claims.
Yearly Archives: 2010
Tory PPC forced to delete homophobic remarks from website
A Conservative Party candidate who described homosexuality as “not ‘normal’ behaviour” and defended section 28 has pulled the remarks from his website.
Conservatives represent the old politics
The Ulster Conservatives and Unionists has formally launched its manifesto for the general election.
Cameron’s “pro-BBC” claim fails to stand up to scrutiny
David Cameron’s contention that he is “the most pro-BBC Conservative leader there’s ever been” doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
Tory attack video full of lies
The latest Conservative Party attack viral has been slammed by fact-checkers for a series of made up statistics on school discipline, quangos and job losses.
Left Foot Forward’s Varun Chandra on C4News
Left Foot Forward’s Varun Chandra was on Channel 4 News last night to discuss hung parliaments. He said the market was “comfortable” with the prospect.
Politics Summary: Tuesday, April 27th
Conservative support among gay voters has dropped to 9 per cent, according to a Pink News poll reported in the Guardian. The poll of 911 LGBT people shows the Liberal Democrats on 58 per cent, Labour on 21 per cent,test
Essex paper is BNP mouthpiece
An Essex newspaper has come in for severe criticism for an “article” on its website which reads almost word-for-word like a BNP press release.
Reflections on climate politics across the English-speaking world
Lord Giddens’s think tank, Policy Network, has just published two new papers examining changes in climate politics in the US and Australia.
Osborne ramps up fear of a hung parliament
David Cameron said last week it was “disgraceful to try and frighten people”. But the Tories are focusing on false market fears of a hung parliament.