by nabidana | Mar 18, 2010 | Uncategorized
Dear former comrade Field, I read with some disbelief, shock, ennui and anger reports of comments that you made that it would not make you physically sick to encounter David Cameron, and that you would not consider setting fire to yourself if he ever phoned you....
by nabidana | Mar 17, 2010 | politics, unions
Unite, the UK’s largest trade union, is the key funder of the Labour Party, providing some £11m to the party since 2007. Since the Union Modernisation fund was established in 2006, the Union has received £4.4m from the government, which is of course a Labour...
by nabidana | Mar 15, 2010 | Uncategorized
Gordon Brown says the British Airways strike being proposed by Unite is coming ‘at the wrong time’. Wrong time how, exactly? Wrong for all the Easter holidaymakers desperate to briefly escape the UK for a week, or wrong for all those people who are now...
by nabidana | Mar 8, 2010 | Election 2010, politics
Conservative victory The Conservative Party, led by David Cameron, won the 2010 General Election. The party secured a majority of 23 seats in an election contest which turned out less close than had previously been predicted. Controversy over election night count...
by nabidana | Mar 3, 2010 | Bbc, commerce and trade, politics
The announcement of proposed cuts to BBC services has been overwhelmingly welcomed by commercial broadcasters and judged as too timid by many conservatives. Yet the proposed changes and the timing represent serious challenges for the Conservatives as a party, and we...