Wednesday, 28 May 2008

Help! How about some forward thinking leadership!

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Another Guardian article which I just had to respond to: Thanks Gordon. You have ably illustrated why you are so out of touch with reality....
Tuesday, 27 May 2008

Credit crunch? Not for the fat cats

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I was interested to read a Guardian report yesterday on City 'workers'. Apparently £13.2bn in bonuses have been handed out so far ...
Friday, 23 May 2008

Cameron the charlatan

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David Cameron is a 'progressive', or so he claims to be. I'd like to believe him. If what he says is true that would bode well ...
Saturday, 17 May 2008

You just don't get it do you....

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I'm writing this whilst listening to The Week in Westminster on Radio 4. Two Labour MPs discussing Labour's problems, and Gordon Br...
Tuesday, 13 May 2008

Privatising the NHS

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Have you heard of polyclinics? These are the future of primary healthcare in the UK according to Lord Darzi who has been 'asked' by...
Monday, 12 May 2008

The Emperor's Clothes

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I have a confession to make. In 1996 I joined the Labour Party. I'd never been a member of a political party before, and I won't go...
Tuesday, 6 May 2008

Chickens coming home to roost.......

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In the local election in Northwich West I polled 540 votes which was 14.3% of the total - not bad for a first attempt. Northwich West is par...
Sunday, 4 May 2008

Buttermere election break

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I was the Green Party local election candidate for Northwich West - but before I can get my result I am off to Buttermere for the weekend wi...
Sunday, 20 April 2008

The fascist pope

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Some years ago when I was a student at 'red' Essex University I went to a lecture by a member of the Maoist Shining Path (Sendero L...

Mr 10%

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Gordon's at it again - bashing the poor.......... Here are the headlines from the 8th April on the BBC :- "Ministers are coming u...
Sunday, 6 April 2008

The great renewable energy swiz

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Are you, like me, one of many people in the UK who would like to generate electricity in your own home ? We now have the technology to gener...
Saturday, 5 April 2008

Hoist with his own petard

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There has been a certain amount of hand wringing recently in the commons and the political press about Gordon Brown. We are told that Gordon...
Tuesday, 1 April 2008

Welcome to post-democratic Britain

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We are living in a post-democratic society. Of course we still have elections, in the same way that we have had for a century or so. But the...
Monday, 24 March 2008

We are made for more than this

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I was interested to read an article - 'We are made for more' - by Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor in today's Guardian . It ...
Monday, 10 March 2008

European Minimum Wage

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The effects of globalisation have largely benefited businesses at the expense of workers. For example, many businesses have sought to re-lo...