nick clegg

Of Osborne: “Welfare for Osborne was just a bottomless pit of savings, and it didn’t really matter what the human consequences were, because focus groups had shown that the voters they wanted to appeal to were very anti-welfare, and therefore there was almost no limit to those anti-welfare...

Ukip have their first MP. BBC Douglas Carswell, Conservative defector, won Clacton easily last night. They also came damned close in Lancashire. Along with topping the popular vote in the European elections recently, this is a huge breakthrough for them, and a nightmare for the Conservatives...

Didn't see a thread on this. The leaders of the two UK parties jostling for third place had a debate on the EU. Farage is anti-EU and wants out, Clegg is pro-EU and wants to stay in. Any thoughts? i6hy8KyedJA

Linky. ... Or not. I've read a few common criticisms so far. The first is the "we have more pressing matters" or "this is a waste of time and money" tactic. I dismiss those out of hand. I do think creating an elected "Senate" is a bad move. Perhaps I read biased sources, but the common thing...

Nic Clegg has just hit out a the coalition partners proposals to introduce tax breaks for married couples. http://web.orange.co.uk/article/news/clegg_attacks_tories_married_tax_breaks_plan So what are the thoughts on this piece of social engineering by the Tories? Why should I be penalised...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15140742 The Human Rights Act 1998 is the incorporation into UK Law of the European Convention on Human Rights, which was first drafted in the early fifties. The HRA was designed to allow British citizens to bring cases which would fall within the scope of...

The Independent argues that http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/clegg-has-a-real-chance-to-change-the-system-he-must-not-blow-it-1968188.html that Labour will offer the LDs a real chance at electoral reform and therefore he should go with Brown. Of course possibly if he went with...

I know he's in favor of greater ties to Europe and de-nuking the UK, but if the Leberal Dems pull it off (still hard to see how but I gather the polls are swinging their way sufficiently that it is becoming possible), what will the relationship with the US look like? Special relationship lite...

Three minutes to go!

This will be fun. Will Americans watch it, like the British obsessively watched Obama versus McCain last year? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8425280.stm But should the SNP take place? They are threatening to take their case to court.

It's going round that Brown will call a general election in March, hoping to avoid the Budget and take advantage of the most favourable poll numbers Labour have got in years (Some put it as close as 6%). http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6954609.ece March election 'Likely'...

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http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/view/32099/labour_party_gains_tories_lead_in_britain There could be some factors that could have led to this. Either it is people waking up to the horror of a future Conservative government, or it is Labour finally shedding its scars from the Iraq War and...