A terminal condition?

There was once a time, hard as it may be to believe now, that the New Labour movement wanted the character above to exit the stage leaving the way clear for Gordon Brown. The coup came in September 2006 and brought forward an exit strategy which saw the champion of New Labour, it’s Martin Johnson [...]

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A new week starts in Haltemprice and Howden

Well, I say a new week, it has sort of blended into last week. I have done some more leafletting, put up some more posters and sent off my report to National CF. It is an interesting campaign as we have Conservatives saying they won’t vote for David, but staunch Lib Dems who have said [...]

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A man of principle

David Davis, the Shadow Home Secretary, has just resigned his seat in Parliament in order to fight the by-election on the issue of Civil Liberties. Davis is a good man, I voted for him in the 2005 leadership contest and I am pleased to see that he is willing to stand up and say a [...]

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Victory is Timpson’s

As you will probably know Edward Timpson, the Conservative Party Candidate for Crewe and Nantwich, has been elected Member of Parliament for Crewe and Nantwich. I sat in Nantwich Conservative Club watching the results come in and the mood was electric. Labour came out with around 12,000 votes and the LibDems around 6,000. Mr Timpson [...]

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A short trip to Crewe and Nantwich

This evening, after much planning, I will, along with three friends, be setting off for Crewe to assist in the fight to elect, the Conservative party candidate, Edward Timpson in this Thursday’s by-election. I will be interested to see the tactics of Labour at first hand and will be trying to find out what the [...]

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Dunwoody’s action plan

What does Tamsin Dunwoody, the Labour Candidate for Crewe and Nantwich, mean when she says
I’m going to get tough on the yobs, bullies and underage drinking on our streets. I will push forward on regeneration and restore pride in our town.
I will fight to get well paid, skilled jobs for local people and I will [...]

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Lib Dems resort to anti-war rhetoric….. in Henley

The Liberal Democrats are calling for the Henley electorate to “HOLD THEM TO ACCOUNT”, they say that because Boris and DC voted for the war in Iraq people should vote Liberal Democrat. Are they really that desperate and that devoid of policy that they are using an issue which does not address the current issues [...]

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YouGov gives reason to smile (if you’re a Tory)

I go out to work for one evening and YouGov publish the results of their latest poll. It is as you will have already heard, 26%. I don’t think digits really do the number justice so, TWENTY-SIX PERCENT! Wow!
Wow, wow and wow again.
There will be certain people who sneer at this poll, certain people mainly [...]

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Concession time?

Last nights vote in Indiana was closer than I thought and the Clinton campaign looks as though it is starting to founder. Has Obama done what he failed to complete on Super Tuesday? Has he demolished the most formidable Democrat election machine since the Kennedy era? We shall see.
Update – Just spotted a comment on [...]

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The Left

I used to believe in coalitions. I believed that by working through our differences we could come to common ground on issues and arrive at good policy. The Left have however over the years diminished my belief that coalitions can work and this is, I believe to a point, proven in a post-local elections article [...]

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