Tony Lloyd MP, House of Commons Houses of Parliament Westminster W1 Dear chairman, As you no doubt know by now,  we at the Channel 4 Dispatches team have conducted an investigation into the extent to which Labour MPs could be ‘bought’ or encouraged to lobby for vested interests for money, In fact, though many of [...]

Many British citizens who pay their taxes will wonder, if Unite can afford to make a political donation to the Labour Party of £11m, why the Labour Government should pay £4.4m to Unite.

Dear ‘Gauleiter’ Dale, I write to you as a regular reader of your Total Politics magazine, to complain in the starkest, clearest, most sincere and least obscurantist way I know how about your recent well-publicised and disgusting interview with the hated fascist would-be dictator Nick  Griffin. Your decision to interview Nick Griffin should first of [...]

Nadine Dorries has finally lost it. Again. # Heading into a nicely complex meeting. Hope to emerge alive. # Just emerged from the meeting. Frustrating. Very frustrating. # Off to the Irish premiere of Invictus. Just has to better Escape to Victory to be greatest sport film ever. # Hadn’t bet on the amount of [...]

Today’s Prime Ministers Questions was an exhilarating experience, partially because David Cameron was on form, alive and effective at asking his questions.  They were topical, fed the news cycle and kept the Labour benches almost silent.  It was superb work from the future Prime Minister. The other two main players, however, were pretty dreadful at [...]

Gordon Brown, the king of wishful thinking, has just made the Queen read out some drivel in the House of Lords.  Here’s the draft he sent up to Buckingham Palace before it was fixed up by an infinite number of monkeys with typewriters. “My Government, which has saved the world and the global financial system, [...]

Anyone else just depressed by this idiot Ainsworth?

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 [...]