How to really protect the recovery
The economy will take centre stage in the election. The debate on which party is best placed to ensure the UK doesn’t slip back into recession is underway.
Yearly Archives: 2010
Wielding the axe on pensions will cost country dear
As the CBI makes another attempt to undermine public sector pensions hot on the heels on the 3 Chancellors, will anyone benefit from all these proposed cuts?
Election Focus – SNP
As Gordon Brown fired the starting gun on the election, first minister Alex Salmond urged Scottish voters to vote for SNP candidates as “champions” of Scotland.
Cameron’s failure to wear cycle helmet “irresponsible”
Following David Cameron’s irresponsible failure to wear a cycle helmet, it has emerged that one of the leading campaigners for compulsory helmets is a Tory MP.
Lord Monckton to headline Tea Party protests
UKIP peer Lord Monckton will address the US Tea Party movement. He has made large sums of money spreading anti-science disinformation.
Mandelson: Tories sit with “xenophobes & homophobes” in Europe
Lord Mandelson has gone on the attack over Europe & the extremism of the modern Tory party, attacking David Cameron for sitting with “xenophobes and homophobes”.
Tories won’t implement “mistaken” Equalities provisions
The Tories have said they won’t implement “mistaken” provisions in the Equality Bill. Is this what Cameron meant by the ‘Big Society’?
Clegg: Replace Trident with Astute
Nick Clegg affirmed his progressive foreign policy credentials this morning, citing the £100 billion expenditure over the next 25 years on a Trident successor.
Cameron’s progressive conservatism masks his appeal to the Tea Partiers
Our guest writer is John Halpin, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, a progressive think tank in Washington, D.C. As an American progressive, I found it heartwarming to hear Tory leader David Cameron praise President John F.test
Top Tory’s VAT plan would leave poorest 30% worse off
Top Tory Kit Malthouse wants direct taxes replaced with VAT. The policy would mean the poorest paying 30% more in tax while the richest got a 9% tax cut.