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By Darrell Goodliffe According to whispers emanating from the Westminster village Charles Kennedy, along with possibly four or five others is ready to cross the floor and defect to Labour. I am a little weary of this because this rumour has…
By Darrell Goodliffe The head of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) communications operation has an annual salary of £85,000. I am a Communications and Research Intern for a sitting MP and earn nothing; in fact, I will…
By Darrell Goodliffe All of the leadership candidates have talked about the need to 'move on'; mostly, they are talking about the Blair/Brown years. However, I think the problem goes back much further. I think the leadership has yet to move…
By Darrell Goodliffe In some respects I am asking this as an open question because part of me feels that there clearly is and then another part of me feels that, in reality, there is little difference between the candidates ideologically…
By Darrell Goodliffe It is fitting that on the same day as Nick Clegg announced his package of constitutional reforms, Michael Gove announced the decimation of the Building Schools of the Future fund. Although they are seemingly…
By Darrell Goodliffe One of things that went widely unreported following the general election was the good clutch of local election results for Labour. The gains made were especially striking against 'ConDem' opposition and in a number of…
By Darrell Goodliffe It probably isn't that fashionable on the left to defend our 'political class' against the roasting it gets both in the media and mainstream public opinion. However, before we deliver a knee-jerk response condemning…
By Darrell Goodliffe So, the various contenders are lining-up and setting out their stalls for the role of party leader and leader of the opposition. I think there is broad consensus that the nature of the contest has to be a real debate…
By Darrell Goodliffe Let's be quite honest: Labour has been flat-footed in it's response to the recent poll surge by the Liberal Democrats. The national response has alternated between a dismissive shrug of the shoulders on one hand, or on…
By Darrell Goodliffe Let's be quite frank. Lord Adonis's 'intervention' in the BA/Unite dispute was a disgrace. Rather than take at least a balanced view Adonis laid into Unite: "It's totally unjustified, this strike, on the merits of the…
By Darrell Goodliffe The opinion polls show that people are taking a long, hard look at the Conservatives and not particularly liking what they see. At the next general election people will have a clear choice between a Conservative Party…
By Darrell Goodliffe So, the Conservatives have raised more money in the last quarter of 2009 than both Labour and the Liberal Democrats combined. Some obvious problems this could cause relate not just to the upcoming general election also…
