Articles tagged with: Conservative Party
As conflict with Iran looks increasingly likely, it’s vital for world peace there is a united effort to invade if Iran doesn’t halt its nuclear enrichment programme.
With the councils ‘urged’ to publish their detailed spending, what implications will this have?
After promising to create ‘political earthquakes’, the smaller parties and independents barely troubled the Richter scale and did not do as well as many expected in the recent election.
Whilst there are weapons that can be acquired easily, drugs to sell and people to sell them to, the cartels will continue to fight the Mexican authorities. Bullets will continue to fly because the drug trade is just too lucrative.
With a hung parliament and the first Coalition government in post-war history, are we witnessing the start of a dramatic demise of the Conservative and Labour parties as we know them?
Robert Kennedy once pointed out, “everyone likes the word progressive but no one likes the word change.” So what is ‘progressive’ politics?
A Lib-Con coalition was not only the right choice for the politically expedient and economically minded – it was the right choice for the public, full stop.
Imagine entering a whirlwind romance with a man or woman who sweeps you off your feet, exchange rings, vows and holy matrimony, only to be told by relatives and life long friends at the reception …
As Gordon Brown’s career in Westminster draws to a close, lessons learnt from his reign can be applied to the future of the Labour party.
One of the many fascinating battles fought in last week’s General Election was that of Oxford West and Abingdon where Evan Harris, the incumbent Liberal Democrat MP, lost to first-time Conservative candidate Nicola Blackwood. The contest begs the question: to what extent did religion and science decide the outcome?
At this time of economic uncertainty and public disrespect of Parliament, Cameron has the chance to reach out to the Liberal Democrats and deliver policies in the national interest.
(c) Martin Tod
Nearly 3,000 online comments were made following the editorial decision taken by The Guardian to enter a new era of official support for the electoral reform-championing Lib Dems. The timing, just days before …
