Good Tory results give Cameron a 2015 headache
What the 2011 Local election results show is that Cameron will not be able to erode the Labour lead by ‘calling voters home’ – Ed Miliband’s lead may be small but hard to shift
Labour
A progressive majority has surrendered Britain to the conservative minority
Following defeat in the Alternative Vote AV referendum, Green Party activist Matt Wootton conducts an autopsy into the failures of the Yes! To Fairer Votes campaign.
Vote 2011: Green campaign diary
Green Party councillor Rupert Read kicks off Left Foot Forward’s dispatches from the front: the campaign diaries of party activists on the election trail.
The papers on AV: Optimistic, cynical, meditative, hysterical…
Dominic Browne gives a round-up of all the main papers’ opinions on the AV referendum, from the optimistic to the cynical, the meditative to the hysterical.
Wales Vote 2011: Devolved elections campaign round-up
Ed Jacobs gives a round-up of the key issues, policies and dividing lines between the parties and their leaders in the forthcoming Welsh elections.
Yet more distortion of the truth from No2AV
Last week Labour No To AV released a document, the purpose of which was to argue that AV would harm Labour’s electoral fortunes. Labour Yes rebut their key arguments.
Scotland Vote 2011: Devolved elections campaign round-up
Ed Jacobs looks at all the key issues, policies and dividing lines between the leaders and parties in the Scottish Parliament elections tomorrow.
It’s Tory money that owns No2AV – left, right and centre
Further evidence has come to light on the extent of Tory funding for the ‘No to AV’ campaign, including its Labour subsiduary.
Vote yes for progress and the progressive majority
Social Liberal Forum’s Dr. Prateek Buch argues that Yes to AV would benefit the progressive majority and democracy in general.
Take the coalition’s ‘Tory Boy’ posturing on welfare claimants with a pinch of salt
Neil Coyle gives a robust, evidenced based analysis of the latest DWP figures on disability benefit re-assessments and attempts to get people back into work.