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FGM is a universal horror, including in Britain
Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a truly dreadful topic, and we all wish there was no reason, ever, to consider it. But there is. Whilst we in the UK see endless (and correct) concern for upholding the human rights of alleged dangerous extremists such as … Continue reading
Regional pay: how to increase the North-South divide and weaken the ConDem coalition?
As anticipated following Chancellor George Osborne’s budget, Health Secretary Andrew Lansley has now declared that ‘regional’ pay for health workers is on the agenda. Needless to say, those in the South-East will earn more under this arrangement than colleagues further North. … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Lansley, ConDems, Conservative, David Cameron, DE-governance, economy, George Osborne, health, housing, Liberal Democrat, NHS, Nick Clegg, pay, regional, strategy
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Government ‘incompetent’? Not when it comes to DE-governance…
Increasingly, we read that the present UK government is ‘incompetent’. But I’d suggest the Government is ‘only’ incompetent in things it reckons are fundamentally unimportant for the longer-term. David Cameron may make the occasional attempt to appear cuddly but George … Continue reading
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Tagged ConDems, Conservative, David Cameron, DE-governance, George Osborne, incompetence, monetarist, welfare state
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CSA charges: the ConDems punish women and children, and shield men (again)
The ConDem administration doesn’t just disregard women; it evidently wants to put them firmly back under the control, however odious, of men. How else can we explain the intention as an element of the Welfare Reform Bill that single parents … Continue reading
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Tagged Child Support Agency, children, Coalition, Conservative, David Cameron, fathers, feminist, Liberal Democrat, mothers, Nasty Party, Nick Clegg, poverty, single mums, Welfare Reform Bill
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Disabling the already disabled: the sham(e) that is the ConDems (& a Petition)
If you haven’t experienced serious illness or longer-term disability you really do need to make the effort, right now, to imagine what that might feel like close up. That’s what I hope to help you do, in this post. Having such … Continue reading
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Tagged Andy Burnham, ConDems, David Cameron, DE-governance, dependency, disability, Ed Miliband, health, Nick Clegg, Pat Onions, Spartacus Report, Sue Marsh, Welfare Reform Act
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Ed hapless; future hopeless; LibDems shameless (unless they cross the floor)?
Ed Miliband continues to lack traction with the electorate; Nick Clegg tilts at EU rainbows whilst fully aware that David Cameron, holding the LibDems over a barrel, barely cares; unemployment is approaching 3 million. How much worse can it get? … Continue reading
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Tagged David Cameron, Ed Miliband, elections, Nick Clegg, political defections, Sue Marsh
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LibDems prop up the Coalition; they don’t protect us from it
It takes a special sort of bare-faced nerve to be a LibDem politician right now. Extraordinarily, they ask us to agree that the Coalition is being molded by them in positive ways and would, by inference, be ‘worse’ without them. … Continue reading
The Murdock miasma driving Clegg via Cable from Cameron – what next?
The extraordinary revelations of the past week, as grim fact upon grim fact is revealed in the News of the World phone-hacking horror story, are we all agree only the beginning. What comes next, we are also all agreed, is … Continue reading
Tory soullessness requires sustained attack
It took barely a few days to show why Labour must always, always be on guard and on the attack against the ConDems. Ed Miliband had hardly finished his ‘I met a man…’ speech – in which he claimed a disabled person … Continue reading
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Tagged Arnie Graf, David Cameron, disability, Ed Miliband, Philip Davies
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Eton and equality don’t mix. Please note, Blue Labour.
So here’s today’s Guardian, in a piece with the depressingly predictable news that some 31 of the 1,008 new entrants to this year’s Who’s Who attended Eton: The coalition government is dominated by former public school pupils. Within days of … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Robathan, beware, Blue Labour, change, Chris Huhne, David Cameron, Dominic Lawson, equality, Eton, George Osborne, health, Ken Clarke, misogyny, rape
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AV goes; so will Labour now get going?
What will the outcome of the FPTP / AV campaigns tell us? Our main lesson, if we look past the bluster, may be about leadership in a world changing as it never has before, by the day and hour. Tomorrow the … Continue reading
A ‘No’ AV outcome could convert LibDem MPs to Labour
In the end, and very reluctantly, I’ve gone for ‘No’ on the Alternative Vote. I truly wanted to be progressive, and it’s really tempting to hit the Tories where it hurts. But over the past few weeks I’ve realised that ‘Yes’ … Continue reading
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Tagged AV (Alternative Vote), Conservative, David Cameron, Labour, MP numbers, Nick Clegg, political defections
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Zeroing the deficit zoom, zoom: essentially a grim vanity project?
Is the frenetic rush to reduce the deficit in reality more about the Chancellor’s ego, than about the UK economy? It doesn’t take a great economist to see that when people don’t have a job, other working people are also vulnerable to unemployment. … Continue reading
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Tagged David Cameron, DE-governance, deficit, economy, George Osborne, poverty
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Whoever heard of double devolution? ‘Big Society’ sounds better (but isn’t)
You may remember ‘double devolution’; but if you do it’s probably because you are a politically progressive activist. Double devolution was the name given when Labour was in power by then Communities Secretary Hazel Blears, and her ministerial colleague Andrew … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Adonis, Big Society, David Cameron, DE-governance, Hazel Blears, Labour, localism, poverty
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Tory ‘dictatorship of the moment’ … LibDems, where are you?
There is clear and fundamental purpose behind the apparent chaos of the current Conservative-led ‘reforms’. The chaos is a cover, whether intentional or not, to distract us whilst a root-and-branch revision of the rules of engagement is being embedded into UK politics. There’s little doubt now … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Lansley, Coalition, Conservative, David Cameron, George Osborne, Liberal Democrat, Nick Clegg, Robert Tressell, Victorian
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