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Churchill famously said “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been”. The career of Grant Shapps is a clear example of everything that is wrong with the way politics works. Let’s forget this…
So yesterday I tweeted that the poll that rates Ed Balls highly shouldn’t bother Ed Miliband. That Balls is seen as doing better than his opposite number is good news – for Ed Balls, for Labour and for Ed Miliband. We are – after all – a…
Life isn’t easy for the Lib Dems at the moment. There are few indications it’s going to get easier any time soon. For two years in a row, their councillors have taken a battering sometimes even losing to people dressed as penguins. Where…
David Cameron isn’t very good at politics. When I first said this it was a controversial statement. Now it’s pretty commonly accepted. He still has his moments, but right now he’s basically the badly burnt toast of the London Olympics. His…
Well that was unexpected. Before the games, I like so many others, was highly questioning of everything they were saying about us as a nation and in particular the diminishment of our public spaces by commercial interests. That’s not a…
Before I worked in politics, I worked in sales. One of my first jobs after finishing sixth form (before I decided to go to university) involved getting to a warehouse in Clapton at 7am for an hour’s motivational chanting before lugging 48…
Nick Clegg has a choice. He doesn’t have to lose his prized reform of the undemocratic House of Lords, but in order to not do so he will have to swallow a significant amount of pride. Here’s what’s not going to happen: Tory MPs are not…
Sometimes, you read something so defiantly muddle-headed, that you wonder if it is – in fact – satire. Yesterday, was just such an occasion. I read a post on Labour Uncut which was ostensibly evidence based, yet the holes in it were so big…
The LIBOR scandal is being commented on as the scandal that will break the camel’s back. The one that will change the culture of the so-called “master’s of the universe” with their casino banking and the devastation they have wreaked on the…
Last week I was delighted to spend the first half of the week in Strasbourg visiting and learning about the European Parliament. Anyone who – like me – had found their instinctive Europeanism wavering under the onslaught of austerity driven…
This is not the blog post I expected to write. I’ve been on the NPF for just under 2 years, and those two years have been filled with little but frustration and a depressing sense of going through the motions like so much herded cattle…
Sometimes I can be a bit of a gloomy bugger. When it was all kicking off at Victoria Street, I wrote what was probably one of the most damning pieces of my blogging career so far. I stand by that piece. It was an accurate reflection of how…
