Lib Dem councillor to residents: Should I join Labour?
A Lib Dem councillor has written to local residents to ask whether she should leave her party and join Labour in protest at the formation of the Coalition.
Yearly Archives: 2010
A green perspective on Ed Miliband
Ed Miliband spoke in Norwich last night. Local Green party councillor Rupert Read attended and was impressed by the performance.
Sound move to give terrorists reduced terms for cooperating
Convicted terrorists should be given reduced sentences in return for their cooperation with police investigations. This is just one of the recommendations made by Lord Carlile, the government’s Independent Reviewer of anti-terrorist laws, in his annual report delivered yesterday.
Look Left – The Week in Fast Forward
This was the week Nick Clegg would most definitely wish to forget. From his litany of gaffes at PMQs to the disastrous Liberal Democrat opinion poll results, the recess can’t come soon enough for the deputy prime minister.
D Miliband: Labour must buck the trend to prevent the return of mass unemployment
Labour leadership candidate David Miliband writes for Left Foot Forward on the GDP figures and the state of the economy.
No we can’t: Obama and Senate Democrats give up on climate bill
Accepting the Democrat nomination on June 3rd, 2008, Barack Obama predicted future generations would look back and see that “this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal”. But today we know that will not be the case.
Clegg’s Bill is undemocratic and partisan
Nick Clegg’s Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill was published yesterday. It removes local control and contains carve outs for Lib Dem MPs.
Inequalities in life expectancy greater than at any point since the 1920s
New research published today in the British Medical Journal reveals inequalities in life expectancy are greater than at any point since the 1920s.
Darling: GDP rise due to Labour’s approach to “supporting the recovery”
The shadow Chancellor says the rise in GDP “show the results of the Labour Government’s approach to supporting the recovery” – and that the Coalition “will have to accept responsibility for the risks they are taking with the economy”.
The week outside Westminster
The Scottish government has refused a request by the US Senate for Scottish justice secretary Kenny MacAskill to face the Senate foreign affairs committee to answer for the early release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed al-Megrahi.