“Read my lips,” Cameron told voters on Winter Fuel Allowance
During the election, David Cameron reassured voters over the Winter Fuel Allowance by urging them to “read my lips”. Just like George HW Bush, Cameron looks set to renege on his promise.
Yearly Archives: 2010
Common sense demands reformation of UK drug laws
The ‘War on Drugs’ has been lost with the criminalization of thousands of users and the financial ascension of global crime syndicates. The Coalition must consider a new approach.
The vanishing baroness: Top Tory tries to cover up Russian oligarch links
Last weekend the Mail on Sunday broke the news that MI5 had vetoed Baroness Pauline Neville Jones’ appointment as Cameron’s National Security Advisor over concerns about her links to two dubious Russian oligarchs.
Part-time jobs are no substitute for full-time employment
As a result of the Coalition’s policies, unemployment will remain at a very high level and around 1 million people who want to work full-time will remain stuck in part-time jobs.
Are Clegg and Osborne at odds on income inequality?
Nick Clegg today set out his concerns about income inequality in a speech on social mobility. His remarks put him at odds with George Osborne who will talk only of “equality of opportunity”.
Thousands come together to stand up for the NHS
In just a few days, more than 2,000 38 Degrees members have come together to share their stories of what they value about the NHS. They’re concerned about the Coalition’s plans for the health service, including privitisation of services and layoffs of huge numbers of NHS staff.
Guardian buries Labour resurgence
Today’s ICM poll for the Guardian puts the Labour party on level terms with the Conservatives for the first time since October 2007. But as noted by UK Polling Report’s Anthony Wells, “the Guardian’s report concentrates upon the findings ontest
More woe for Clegg as Ed Miliband slams Coalition’s 100-day record
Twitter sentiment for Nick Clegg is down sharply – while David Cameron’s rating has risen slightly, in another stark illustration of the unpopularity of the ‘sell out’ deputy prime minister in the three months since the general election.
Abandoning UN commitments will compound Pakistan floods disaster and others
Our guest writer is Gareth Thomas MP, shadow minister for international development UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, returning from viewing the devastation in Pakistan for himself today has told the world to ‘wake up’ to the full scale of thetest
Farewell Lord Pearson, here’s our video tribute…
Left Foot Forward couldn’t let this historic occasion pass without our own tribute, so here it is, a reprise of Pearson’s priceless performance on the Campaign Show during the general election…