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Cameron in another faux pas.
This week, the PM stated that more women are needed in boardrooms in order to prevent the economy failing. Perhaps stating from this that he’s stating women make better economists… Read more
How the Lib/Lab/Cons are failing at education and social mobility
By creating a system where everyone must go to university, there now exists a stigma attached to those who choose not to or are unable to attend, and devalued degrees… Read more
Rally Against Debt Was a Success
Pictures of the scenes unfolding at the Rally Against Debt This has been my first chance to post on here since returning from London and escaping the Westminster Village I… Read more
Laws is not above the law!
First rule of politics, don’t go into it if you have something to hide. Well silly Laws thought he could keep his sexuality a secret. Look we live in the… Read more
Osborne Is Only As Committed As He Wants To Be
Another day, another bail out, another excuse from the Chancellor that his hands are tied. Sadly, he seems unwilling to try and free himself. Today George Osborne jets off to… Read more
Nigel Farage to speak at Rally Against Debt
I’m sure many of you have heard that an event is being held in Westminster on Saturday called Rally Against Debt. It is what it says on the tin. It’s… Read more
Why UKIP activists should support AV.
More support should be given to AV from UKIP members and activists. Although we will still find it hard to win seats, we will save heaps of deposits. We will… Read more
Well I was wrong on Goldsmith after all.
First of all hat tip to the members of the house who voted for the in/out referendum clause. Shame on them to those who voted against. Even more so sickening… Read more
Tory Euro-what? Sceptics? Really?
As already blogged here yesterday by IndHome newcomer Alex Walker, last night the Commons defeated Peter Bone MP’s amendment, which sought to set an automatic trigger for a referendum on… Read more
An unsurprising vote
Today a Tory MP made a respectable attempt to pave the way for an in/out referendum. He wanted an amendment to the European Union Bill so that any referendum on… Read more
The Economy Shrinks…. A Fleet Of RAF Aircraft Get Scrapped… But MPs Get A Pay Rise
What a week, the UK economy has shrunk causing fears of a double dip recession and now the BBC has revealed that the new RAF Nimrod fleet currently under construction has fallen victim to the government cuts and has quite literally… Read more
Cameron’s Conservatives are lucky the electorate didn’t know what they stood for.
Janet Daley writes on ConservativeHome’s findings that many voters were unsure of David Cameron and his inner circle’s commitment to values. As Daley says, voters saw the Tory leadership as: politicians… Read more
Redwood the deluded
I like John Redwood. He is a genuine Eurosceptic, although he lacks the backbone of others on his party’s backbenches to publicly declare his support for withdrawal. But the big… Read more
NHS Reforms Under Fire
After having read several articles regarding current debate on the proposed NHS reforms, it seems that although some initiatives are well-meaning, they will, in many ways, affect the NHS in ways that they should not. The ethos of… Read more
Sovereign power does not a permission require!
It is laughable really. David Cameron, alogside Willy Hague and his merry band of apparent Eurosceptics, made a big play of their commitment to assert the sovereignty of Parliament and… Read more
Qatada is the incorporation of Liberal fear.
It has emerged that Abu Qatada is under round the clock police protection from the very people he’s advocated violence toward for years. The fact it will cost the taxpayer thousands to… Read more »