LABOUR’S theme for the general election next year will probably be “hope”. That is, we will hope that the economy recovers sufficiently in time; we will hope that unemployment has peaked before the election; and we will hope that voters will not risk letting the Tories interfere with a nascent recovery. At the moment, this seems a rather pessimistic kind of hope.
Archive for May, 2009
Let’s change the rules of engagement
By Tribune Web Editor /Tuesday, May 19th, 2009Tulip Siddiq argues that we should focus on inclusion rather than defer to organisations claiming to speak for particular social or ethnic groups
By Tribune Web Editor /Monday, May 18th, 2009
JAMES GRAY, the Tory MP for North Wiltshire, who once tried to claim expenses for wreathes for Remembrance Day, has a new campaign running on his website: MP Calls for Camp Bastion War Memorial to be returned to Wootton Bassett. Is it on the John Lewis list?
By Tribune Web Editor /Monday, May 18th, 2009
Should the PM be replaced before the general election? You said: Yes: 72% No: 28%
City Hall Watch: Mayor and DEFRA set for air quality showdown
By Tribune Web Editor /Monday, May 18th, 2009DURING the same week that London Mayor Boris Johnson celebrated his first anniversary at City Hall, a report from the environment committee of the Greater London Assembly, appropriately entitled Every Breath You Take, highlighted how bad the air quality in London was getting for its residents.
Singapore’s times are finally changing
By Tribune Web Editor /Monday, May 18th, 2009Singapore’s leaders are going to have to engage with its people if they want prosperity and stability to continue, says Roderick Clyne
Ellie Reeves: Some simple steps ministers must take to ban blacklisting
By Tribune Web Editor /Monday, May 18th, 2009The Government doesn’t need to consult again before outlawing a vile practice that creates fear at work. It just needs to act
By Tribune Web Editor /Sunday, May 17th, 2009
LABOUR members in Erith and Thamesmead, where a new prospective candidate is to be chosen tomorrow night (May 16), were impressed by the arrival of a fresh postal ballot. The number of requested postal votes has now risen to 116, well over two-thirds of the eligible membership, so the outcome will be decided by people [...]
Ed Balls: Tories play hide and seek but they should come clean
By Tribune Web Editor /Sunday, May 17th, 2009POLITICS is about choices and priorities: voters have a right to know what the different parties competing for office would do. And while the Tories may like to kid themselves that this is the run-up to 1997 in reverse, they have not yet been subject to anywhere near the same sort of scrutiny as Labour rightly was during that period. So let me explain why, on education policy, the past few weeks have been so revealing about David Cameron’s Conservative Party.
By Tribune Web Editor /Saturday, May 16th, 2009
STILL, the Labour voters in Luton North can’t complain. Move aside Cabinet good boys Hillary Benn and Alan Johnson, whose frugality in claiming allowances confers virtual sainthood among the ministerial sinners, and leftie economics expert Kelvin Hopkins has been exposed as having claimed just £296 in expenses in 2004-5. Comparisons are odious, especially when they [...]