Look Left – Former Labour MP sent down for expenses fraud
Shamik Das reports on the jailing of Former Labour MP David Chaytor for 18 months for expenses fraud, plus the rest of the week’s political news.
Shamik Das
Study shows strong link between police numbers and crime
A study has shown a strong negative correlation between police numbers & crime, contradicting police minister Nick Herbert’s claim that “there is no such link”.
“Positive stuff but nothing new” in Clegg’s FoI announcement
Nick Clegg’s latest remarks on Freedom of Information have been praised, though only when the Bill is presented to Parliament will full details emerge.
Mail and Telegraph pull anti-tax-dodging ads
Right-wing papers the Daily Mail and the Telegraph have pulled 38 Degrees’s anti-tax-dodging “Artful Dodger” ads – despite having agreed prices with the group.
Look Left – Wikileaks saga comes to town as Assange tastes fresh air
Julian Assange tastes “the fresh air of London” as he is released on bail; Eric Pickles unveils savage cuts to local councils; and the rest of the week’s news.
AV: Poll lead for yes campaign as Clegg set to take back seat
A majority of the public will vote yes in the alternative vote (AV) referendum, according to an ICM poll in today’s Independent; 56% favour AV, 44% oppose.
Government opts out of EU human trafficking directive
After months of confusion and mixed messages the government today opted out of new European Union rules to crack down on human trafficking, reports Shamik Das.
Is Simon Hughes Britain’s most confused politician?
Following Evan Harris’s bizarre claim last week that the only way to get rid of fees was to “vote more Liberal Democrats into power”, Simon Hughes yesterday said he “would have liked to have voted against” fees – but didn’t, just as he threatened to vote against the VAT rise in the Budget but failed to do so, and as he threatened to do over the government’s housing benefit cuts.
Look Left – Fees trebled as Clegg, Cable and co. break pledge
The week: The Lib Dems’ final betrayal over tuition fees, led into the abyss by Nick Clegg and Vince Cable, the prison reform plans, the Cancun summit and more.
Evan Harris: “If you want to get rid of fees vote more Lib Dems into power”
Former Liberal Democrat MP Dr Evan Harris has made the extraordinary claim that to get rid of fees “the answer is to vote more liberal democrats into power”.