The post-budget polls begin to surface, and it’s a pretty nasty result if you happen to be a one-eyed caledonian dilletante playing at being Prime Minister. It’s probably a great day to be a prospective leader of the opposition such as Harriet Harperson or Jack ‘Demon Headmaster’ Straw. Wait a minute-didn’t Jack Straw’s seat just [...]
There would be little more satisfying than telling Gordon Brown to please just go to his face… one thing that might suffice for now would be asking him to go, very politely, on his own website. The opportunity is now. Take it. http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/please-go/ Hat tip on this one to Guido Fawkes on his http://order-order.com blog
UnionistLite comments on his excellent blog that one solution to the troughing of Northern Ireland MPs might be, in part at least, the end of multiple mandate. He’s right, of course; I would extend that one person one mandate principle all the way down to district and borough councils, massively extending the (currently execrable) base [...]
