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By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 As of this morning, I'll be away until Tuesday 8th September, sunning myself on a relaxing holiday to the world's most relaxing destination, New York City. What made me thought this would be the right way to…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 1 (1) Tom Harris MP 2 (2) Hopi Sen 3 (-) LabourList 4 (-) Alastair Campbell 5 (13) SNP Tactical Voting 6 (6) Luke Akehurst 7 (12) Harry's Place 8 (-) Next Left 9 (3) Stumbling & Mumbling 10 (27) The Daily…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 I've just signed Sky News' petition calling for a televised debate between the leaders of the major political parties ahead of the next general election. When I was in the States, the presidential election was…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Gordon Brown has given an hour long interview for today's FT, in which he talks of his "cautious optimism for the future" of the British economy. The interview is ahead of the G20 summit in Pittsburgh later…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Last night, I had a discussion with Iain Dale about how the internet will affect the next general election, for the Westminster Hour programme on Radio 4. We spoke about Kerry McCarthy's new role, lessons from…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Today's Indpendent reports that more than a quarter of candidates running at the general election have only ever worked in politics. The survey of 782 prospective parliamentary candidates - 94 per cent of…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 UPADTE: The Guardian, The Independent, The Baltimore Sun and LabourList all got hooked, lined and sinkered by this, which was a hoax inexplicably deisgned to deceive, arranged by LabourHome's Alex Hilton…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 According to a report in today's Times, budget smallprint will abolish the £780 per year surplus housing benefit allowance. That's £15 per week that could be withdrawn from the pockets of the worse off in the…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 The BBC, bastion of the left, biased in favour of Labour, liberal in all but name. Right? Wrong, according to an article by Mehdi Hasan, Senior Political Editor at the New Statesman, in this week's magazine…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 On the day thousands of students are collecting their GCSE results across the country, Ed Balls has written an interesting piece for the Guardian in which he sets out his ambition for: "a state education…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 In yet another interview with the US Media, Daniel Hannan has praised Enoch Powell as one of his poltical influences. The right-wing Tory MEP, who previously called the NHS "a mistake" that he "wouldn't wish…
By Alex Smith / @alexsmith1982 Labour's candidate for Streatham, Chuka Umunna, has followed up from last week's Tweet and written a full post in support of Labour primaries. In the article on NextLeft, Chuka says: "On the primaries issue, I…
