Tag Archive for 'confidence'

Election talk: fluff

Talk of a General Election in March is just fluff, unless we as a nation can decide what MPs are really for.

A house divided

Prescott — Miliband claims ‘divide Labour’ (BBC)
Gordon Brown’s Labour Party is a shadow of Tony Blair’s. Blair ran his party with a combination of charisma, implied promises, and the fear of missing out. Brown doesn’t so much run Labour as survive it. He is the eternal Mr Bean of British politics: no matter how hard [...]

On the anniversary of D-Day, for the first time in British history, a far-right party with the fascist heritage of Hitler and Mussolini has won parliamentary seats from the British electorate — not one, but two. We can point to the economy, we can point to disillusionment with 12 years of Labour, we can point [...]