IDS seems to be making a transition from quiet man to Tebbit-lite hard man. Telling the unemployed to get on the bus and look for work is all very good from a rhetoric point of view. It’ll likely appease the Daily Mail readers and other brainless Tories who see poverty and umemployment as mere luxurious lifestyle [...]
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Work? What work?
Posted by Chris Nash on October 22, 2010
http://comradenash.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/work-what-work/
For the Lols
A certain picture of a young Mr. Cameron standing alongside a old Tory Chancellor on an historic day is for some reason rather popular in the page hit statistics. Now that Dave is unfortunately back in Downing Street, it is perhaps time to once again pay tribute to the supreme economic literacy of Chancellor Lamont and his [...]
Posted by Chris Nash on May 14, 2010
http://comradenash.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/for-the-lols/
Moving the goalposts
Well, it didn’t take long for the ConDem coalition to disappoint me on constitutional reform. Barely 48 hours in and already we have two disgraceful proposals: 1) Fixed 5-year parliaments, and 2) Raising the No Confidence vote threshold. 1) A fix-up The first is an awful idea. When Britain needs more democracy, and more accountable [...]
Posted by Chris Nash on May 13, 2010
http://comradenash.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/moving-the-goalposts/
Bugger
Suffice to say events did indeed move faster than I blog, and I shall of course not now be blogging on coalition scenarios. So I wake up this morning to a Tory-Lib Dem government, and to pictures of Dave outside No 10. The instinctive reaction to seeing him enter is for a voice inside to [...]
Posted by Chris Nash on May 13, 2010
http://comradenash.wordpress.com/2010/05/13/bugger/
In Clegg we trust.
Didn’t vote Lib Dem. Didn’t vote at all. Was disenfranchised by a flipping volcano, though at least as a politically-minded geologist I appreciate the irony. If I had voted it would have been for Gisela Stuart MP (Labour) in Birmingham Edgbaston. As such, I don’t believe I have any authority to tell the Liberal Democrats [...]
Posted by Chris Nash on May 10, 2010
http://comradenash.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/in-clegg-we-trust/
May 6th 2010, and all that
You’d think I could possibly, in a blog which mainly focusses on broad political issues, have found some time to pass comment on the 2010 UK general election campaign. Well, you’d be wrong. Actually, the vast amount of polling data and journalistic analysis from the broadsheets took up most of my frivolous political time. Granted [...]
Posted by Chris Nash on May 10, 2010
http://comradenash.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/may-6th-2010-and-all-that/
#Mandy4Mayor
I’m by now means the first blogger to comment on this story. ToryBear among others certainly got there first, but as far as speculative Xmas presents go, this is quite a treat. Peter Mandelson considering a mayoral race against Boris in 2012. That some of the rumours come direct from the Livingstone camp is enough [...]
Posted by Chris Nash on December 21, 2009
http://comradenash.wordpress.com/2009/12/21/mandy4mayor/
Polls, Money, & Bitches
The latest Ipsos MORI poll shows a drastic reverse in the narrowing of the Tories poll lead. In short: Con 43 (+6) Lab 26 (-5) LD 20 (+2) Other 11 (-3) There can be no hiding the strong probability that this reflects a general public disapproval of the Pre-Budget Report. My first thoughts on reading [...]
Posted by Chris Nash on December 20, 2009
http://comradenash.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/polls-money-bitches/
#Boris4PM
These Twitter-esque tags are getting a little bit excessive aren’t they? Well, maybe. Further to the previous post, I just had to give an additional comment on Andrew Marr’s Boris interview. Leadership speculation in your own party is just frustrating. In the Oppostion, its bloody good fun. Its probably due to my Tory roots, and a satirical [...]
Posted by Chris Nash on December 14, 2009
http://comradenash.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/boris4pm/
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