Today David Davis launched his website www.daviddavisforfreedom.com to help highlight the issues he will be campaigning on and the issues which he stands firm to. Many Members of Parliament would not have dared take the chance of stepping down from their seat to force a by-election, nevermind quit a senior post in the next Conservative [...]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Apparently the final numbers for the Mayor of London election will not be known until around 10.00pm this evening
Nationally the Tories are doing very well, although not as well as any of us would like in Leeds. Congratulations to the chaps over at Bradford who have excelled themselves this year and to Simon [...]
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Boris Johnson, the journalist, T.V. presenter and politician, has turned the idea of his being Mayor of London from being a joke into being a real possibility.
The Right wing press have asked serious questions as to whether he can do it properly and bring prosper not only to London, but also for David Cameron. The [...]
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Posted in Boris, Clinton, Clunking Fist, Conservatives, Economy, Labour, Mayor of London, Obama, Polling, Red Ken on April 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Today’s Independent will see a poll from ComRes which has the Conservative Party 14 points ahead of the Labour Government. This is a bad poll for the government, not just because it is only four days before Londoners go to the Polls to decide whether RedKen gets to keep his job or whether they plump [...]
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