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• UK’s Gordon Brown to testify before Iraq inquiry (AP)

  
  enUws — Authority: 467
  AP – British leader Gordon Brown won’t testify before his country’s investigation of the Iraq war until after the next… Here is the original post: (AP)"> (AP)">UK’s Gordon Brown to testify before Iraq inquiry (AP)
  14 hours ago

• Identity politics vs class politics - 7: The neo-liberal/social-liberal tradeoff in the 4th Labour Govt

  
  liberation — Authority: 414
  One of the most perplexing questions in the history of the left in New Zealand has been: Why was it a Labour Party that implemented the radical anti-worker neoliberal reforms? What’s more, why did the ‘left’ of the party allow the programme of Rogernomics to be implemented? The answer is partly that the Labour ...
  16 hours ago

• Tories slammed by historians for allowing Plymouth heritage to be lost

  
  Labour Matters — Authority: 482
  Conservative Councillors in Plymouth have come under fire by history experts for allowing some of the nation’s most valuable artefacts to be lost to the city. Archivists are furious after the Council Leader Vivien Pengelly reneged on promises she made in January 2009 to prevent records from being repatriated out ...
  18 hours ago

• Westminster Labour welcome new 20mph speed limit powers

  
  Labour Matters — Authority: 482
  Labour Councillors in Westminster have welcomed the news that local councils will be handed new powers to introduce 20mph speed-limit zones in residential areas under Government proposals, following a report which showed the number of road injuries in London within restricted zones fell by 40% over ten years. Under ...
  19 hours ago

• Paul Blomfield calls on Cameron to scrap his anti-workers pledge

  
  Labour Matters — Authority: 482
  Paul Blomfield, Labour’s Parliamentary Candidate for Sheffield Central, has signed a giant Christmas card to David Cameron calling on him to scrap his pledge to pull Britain out of the European Social Chapter which would have a devastating impact on British workers. Britain joined the European Social Chapter in 1997 ...
  20 hours ago

• Memo to Gordon: you really need Mandy

  
  David Jones, MP — Authority: 125
  This morning’s Telegraph report that a rift has developed between the Prime Minister and Peter Mandelson comes as little surprise.  It has been very obvious for some weeks that Mandelson deeply disapproves of the strategy of entrenchment that the Prime Minister, together with the likes of Ed Balls, Alan Johnson ...
  23 hours ago

• Is Barbados Resting On Its Laurels?

  
  Barbados Underground — Authority: 129
  It seems appropriate that we should end 2009 by focussing on the global recession which has decimated the developing economies of the world, Barbados included. The irony of it all is while some have lauded the benefits of globalization and economic partnership agreements; the resulting interconnectivity of world ...
  1 day ago

• John Hutton admits saying Gordon Brown would be disaster as PM

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Labour MP who was defence secretary confirms truth of rumours but says his opinion has changed It is not quite on a par with the unmasking of Deep Throat in Watergate, but the former defence secretary and ultra-­Blairite John Hutton yesterday finally admitted that he had privately briefed that Gordon Brown would be ...
  1 day ago

• Plymouth Council’s new parking places cost £68,000 each

  
  Labour Matters — Authority: 482
  The Labour Group on Plymouth City Council is calling for urgent action on the city’s West End new parking scheme before “someone is killed”. The scheme, which was only completed a few weeks ago, has attracted much criticism from drivers and pedestrians alike. Drivers are unsure of who has priority as in ...
  1 day ago

• TV debates: Do they matter?

  
  Comment Central - Times Online - WBLG — Authority: 652
  With the party leaders having agreed to televised debates, I thought it would be useful to look at the evidence about the influence of the debates on the outcome of US elections. The best study on this subject is that of Professor James Stimson is his excellent book Tides of Consent . Stimson notes all the famous ...
  2 days ago

• It’s snow joke, Brent Lib Dems fail to show grit

  
  Labour Matters — Authority: 482
  Opposition Labour councillors have been deluged with complaints from constituents about the treacherous state of pavements and road surfaces following recent snow falls in Brent. The situation is particularly bad in hilly areas of the borough like Kingsbury. Labour Leader Councillor Ann John, who lives in Meadowbank ...
  2 days ago

• Plaid’s Muslim “Welsh” Assembly Member Joins Tories — So he Can Give Taxpayer-funded Job to Daughter

  
  The British National Party — Authority: 595
  The fake Welsh Plaid Cymru party has been shaken by the defection of its only Muslim Welsh Assembly member to the Tories — because Plaid refused permission to give his daughter a job at the taxpayer’s expense. The Tories have no such compunction or morals about such blatant nepotism and gladly welcomed ...
  2 days ago

• Tories are a party for the rich, say voters.

  
  The Osterley Times — Authority: 138
  As David Cameron, surprisingly, agrees to take part in a series of TV debates , a new poll has found that many voters believe that the Tories are a party which will look after the rich and that they do not represent a good alternative to New Labour. In a remarkable snapshot of national opinion just months ahead of ...
  2 days ago

• Tony Blair: Icons of the decade

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Tony Blair presided over fantasy years of bubble and bounce, of living on the never-never. And Iraq proved his nemesis Iraq was Tony Blairs downfall, engraved eternally on his reputation. What irony, then that this was his one act of political bravery; persuading a reluctant parliament and people to join the war, he ...
  2 days ago

• Would you vote for Mayor Mandelson of London?

  
  Comment Central - Times Online - WBLG — Authority: 652
  Every dark lord needs a dominium. So there is a certain logic to rumours spreading here , here , and here that Peter Mandelson might want to run the capital. But would you vote for him to be Mayor of London, should he run in 2012? Speak up… Would you vote for Mayor Mandelson? ( surveys )
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• Westminster Conservatives ignored warnings about Icelandic bank investment

  
  Labour Matters — Authority: 482
  Freedom of Information revelations uncover latest twist in Westminster Council’s Icelandic Bank saga. £3.2 million of the £17 million invested by Westminster City Council in the now-failed Icelandic bank Landisbanki – and now at risk - was invested in August 2008, even though the Council’s Treasury ...
  2 days ago

• "Devoid of any fresh talent for Westminster"?

  
  A Pint of Unionist Lite — Authority: 430
  Another prospective Double-Jobber on the horizon:Labour MSP Cathy Jamieson has said she will bid for the Westminster seat being vacated by former defence secretary Des Browne at the next general election. Ms Jamieson, a former justice minister at Holyrood, is to seek her partys nomination for the Kilmarnock and ...
  3 days ago

• Welsh MPs back Ann Jones’ sprinkler law

  
  Labour Matters — Authority: 482
  The Welsh Affairs Select Committee has today reported in favour of Ann Jones AM’s LCO which will see the installation of fire sprinklers made mandatory in all new Welsh homes. The Vale of Clwyd AM’s proposal has been officially supported by: the Welsh Assembly Government; Fire Brigades Union; the TUC; Wales’ ...
  3 days ago

• National funding for new local homes and jobs in Cornwall

  
  Labour Matters — Authority: 482
  Jude Robinson, the Labour candidate for Camborne, Redruth and Hayle, is delighted that a bid for more than £6m government funding towards new homes in Camborne has successfully gone through to the second round and has contacted the Housing Minister John Healey MP, in support. Galliford Try Homes Ltd could win ...
  3 days ago

• Angela Smith MP welcomes new Quality Bus Contracts

  
  Labour Matters — Authority: 482
  Angela Smith, local MP and member of the influential Transport Select Committee, has welcomed a recent recommendation by Sheffield City Council to introduce Quality contracts for bus services. The proposals will mean the council will have much more control over how bus services are run in the city, particularly in ...
  3 days ago

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