The Common Post Election Immigration Response

Over the last few weeks I have attended both a Labour (Next left conference) and a Conservative (the Conservative Home election report) post election analysis conference and at both of these conferences, both sides argued that they would have performed much better if they had stressed immigration more and in some cases had a more hard… [Read more…]

One Last one

If you want to talk about scaremongering…

Recently the story about Kingston Hospital has received more attention again (and not for good reasons). If you are a regular reader of my blog you will have seen me comment many times before about this however the report on newsnight tonight has brought it back to peoples attention. You’d really expect better reporting from… [Read more…]

A Lesson from Gandhi

“First they Ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.” have the other parties finally decided to fight us…or then again maybe some haven’t

Reasons to smile

Getting over a thousand overall Blog hits (you guys rock) Setting a record number of Weekly hits on my Blog setting a highest number of daily visits on my Blog (two days in a row) Getting over 100 hits in one day Nick Clegg doing very well in the leaders debate The reaction of @kingstontories… [Read more…]

The British Heir to Obama?

After the amazing campaign that Obama conducted, from relative obscurity, suspicion of being a terrorist and being up against the full force of the Hillary Clinton Primary campaigning team, there have obviously been many people trying to emulate various elements of his campaign and style in general. Every party leader has trying to use some… [Read more…]

Tweeting in the Name Of?

Today I came across the “We got Rage Against the Machine to #1, we can get the Lib Dems into Office!” and very quickly joined! As one of the people who joined the campaign to get rage against the machine to number one at christmas and a member of the Liberal Democrats it was not… [Read more…]

It was MyDavidCameron that lead to a Hung Parliament?

I have to be honest when I first started to see the MyDavidCameron Posters I thought, “great but the only people who are going to see these are going to be bloggers and people who are interested in politics on the internet not the swing voters in marginals that count.” Which seams to be the… [Read more…]

Very Poor Leaflet from Local Conservative Party

Today a saw that I had the missfortune of picking up the local conservative “in Touch” magazine. Normally I wouldn’t write a blog post on something like this but this one made me break that general rule due to one particular element of it, the section titled “Voting Lib Dem will help Gordon Brown stay… [Read more…]

Election Cycling Clothing

So I thought i’d carry on the election theam and address an important issue that I have been considering recently. I have been considering getting a cycling jersey for some time and in the spirit of the election campaign I thought I’d get one for give an example for each of the main parties and… [Read more…]