• Election court agrees to examine Oldham East slur leaflet

    Updated: 2010-06-30 21:23:01
    As we reported last month the Liberal Democrat candidate for Oldham East and Saddleworth was petitioning for a hearing of an election court, alleging a breach of the Representation of the People Act (1983). The BBC now reports: A court is to examine claims that a Labour Party election leaflet from former minister Phil Woolas linked an opponent to Muslim "extremists". An election court has agreed to hear the case brought by Liberal Democrat candidate Elwyn Watkins. He claims Labour falsely portrayed him as taking "illegal" foreign donations. The court could order a fresh election in the Oldham East and ...

  • Thank Labour For Ken Clarke

    Updated: 2010-06-30 20:56:29
    A thought occurred to me earlier while I was pondering the very interesting news regarding the Justice Secretary Ken Clarke's plans to reform the prison system. Ken Clarke is the Justice Secretary. A role created by Labour because they wanted to divide the Home Office into more manageable chunks. This was a good thing. As ...

  • ***War crimes court to question Campbell***

    Updated: 2010-06-30 20:47:00
    Sadly, this isn't the Hague wanting to question Alistair Campbell as an accessory to war-crimes, it refers to the hot-tempered model Naomi Campbell

  • Theresa May Apologises After Policy Announcement to Media Before MP’s

    Updated: 2010-06-30 16:53:41
    Home Secretary Theresa May apologises after announcing non-EU Immigration Cap to the Media before telling MP’s. It comes after Speaker John Bercow looked into a complaint by a labour MP when the story was published in the newspapers on Monday. He said details given to journalists and were “similar” to a statement then made to MPs and [...]

  • Liberal Democrats create £1bn fund for communities hit by cuts - Ian Swales

    Updated: 2010-06-30 15:37:00
    Liberal Democrat Leader and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has launched a £1bn Regional Growth Fund to help communities that may be particularly affected by public spending cuts. Liberal Democrat Ian Swales MP for Redcar has today described the move as a vital step in protecting jobs and promoting growth in the North East. Commenting, Ian said: "The reckless Labour government left the country nearly bankrupt, with an unprecedented challenge ahead. "The Coalition Government has had to make incredibly difficult choices, but the Liberal Democrats are helping ensure that no community gets left behind. "We can now deliver a more ...

  • Leaked Treasury Figures Predicts 1.3m Jobs Lost – Report Claims

    Updated: 2010-06-30 14:20:20
    A report containing leaked treasury figures claims 1.3m jobs could be lost by 2015, the guardian newspaper has predicted that 120,000 public sector jobs and 140,000 private sector jobs could vanish annually for the next five years. Important Labour figures say the true cost of the budget was now clear. But the government says independent experts expect “unemployment to [...]

  • Meetings, meetings everywhere. I need a drop to drink.

    Updated: 2010-06-30 13:22:09
    Unfortunately, this sunny weather has coincided with lots of meetings which take me out of it and plonk me in stuffy rooms. Last night it was the Annual General Meeting of the Rainsough Tenants and Residents Association. A new committee was elected, and there was input from lots of the local partner agencies like the Police, Six Town Housing and Groundwork. An interesting stat falling out of the meeting was that there hasn't been a single burglary in Rainsough in the last three months. This is pretty remarkable, and typical of a substantial fall in local crime which I think ...

  • I am still sceptical of the Coalitions but...

    Updated: 2010-06-30 13:15:00
    This is probably the most difficult posting I have ever written. I have been a member of the Liberal Democrats since 1992 - 18 years, over half my life - and my membership is up for renewal at midnight tonight.

  • The Coalition Government’s First Major Outing Political Cartoon

    Updated: 2010-06-29 12:43:54
    Today the coalition cabinet went to their first major outing outside of London infact to Bradley, all of the coalition MP’s had to take the train (and not first class) all except the prime minister for “security reason’s” they probably all hate him now. This should have been their form of transport; Enjoy :D Artist/Author: Caleb Law age: [...]

  • Chancellor George Osborne’s Axe Dangles Over Incapacity Benefit – But will It Be Cut?

    Updated: 2010-06-28 19:10:14
    Nothing is Safe From the Chancellor Not Even Essential Services. George Osborne has indicated that Incapacity Benefit (a benefit for disabled people under the state pension age) may be cut. George Osborne said he wants to protect those in “genuine need” while encouraging those who could work to do so. Currently in the UK over 2.5m people are [...]

  • Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg Returns to Sheffield Hallam to Speak with Forgemasters

    Updated: 2010-06-26 16:50:57
    Wasn’t Young Clegg so Great Before the Election – But now he’s grown up he’s Public Enemy No.2 (second to David Cameron). Nick Clegg has had to ‘crawl’ back to his constituency to talk to business leaders about snatching the loan away from nuclear development company Forge masters. He spoke to Tony peddler chairman of the board, and at his constituency office he spoke [...]

  • Australia’s First Woman Prime Minister

    Updated: 2010-06-24 12:50:58
    Australia’s first Prime Minister – We had ours in the 80’s I know this is a UK political website but I couldn’t resist commenting on their first female Prime Minister of Australia. Julia Gillard Replaces Kevin Rudd in the Australian General Election 2010 I’m glad for them (Even though I miss Kevin basically because his un-Prime [...]

  • Pension Age to Rise to 66 in 2016 – and 70 in the Future

    Updated: 2010-06-24 11:29:26
    Put Back on your Slippers Gran – Your Going Back to Work I seriously don’t know what to say about this new coalition government policy, it’s good but must be applied with caution. There’s retired pensioners that can work (and want to) but can’t  get employed because of their age, hopefully this could be put to an [...]

  • Prime Minister David Cameron Vows to Tackle the Deficit Political Cartoon

    Updated: 2010-06-23 01:14:12
    Prime Minister David Cameron claims he will ‘tackle’ deficit, this led me to think well… that’s a little a little like American Football so ta-dah enjoy! Artist/Author: Caleb Law age: 13

  • The Budget 2010 – The Queen Fails to Get Pay Rise Political Cartoon

    Updated: 2010-06-23 01:09:42
    The Queen’s attempt to dip her paws in the taxpayers pocket, but is denied by Chancellor George Osborne. In Chancellor George Osborne’s Emergency Budget 2010 he refuses to give the queen a pay rise of £7.9 million, it is quite a no-brainer that if the country is in recession and money is tight you don’t ‘beg’ [...]

  • Chancellor George Osborne Bore’s Nick Clegg at Budget Speech 2010

    Updated: 2010-06-22 21:02:58
    Did anyone notice how Nick Clegg looked very bored at Chancellor George Osborne’s budget speech in the House of Commons. He was at the point of yawning and looked very exhausted so I made a political cartoon that addresses Nick Clegg’s boredom. Enjoy :D Artist/Author: Caleb Law age: 13

  • Penrith By-election Analysis

    Updated: 2010-06-17 11:29:17
    On Saturday night I will be providing full analysis of the Penrith by-election results. Tune in after 6pm on Saturday night at http://www.abc.net.au/elections/nsw/2010/penrith/ for analysis of the results, including detailed booth by booth analysis. I will also be twittering results...

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