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No more squandering the nation’s assets.
No more sleaze ..
No more lies.
No more broken promises.”
(Tony Blair, 1997)
Prof Chris Pierson
Showing posts with label Coalition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coalition. Show all posts
Monday, 7 June 2010
Thursday, 20 May 2010
The next Great Reform Act? Pull the other one, Nick.
Nick Clegg has called the new government’s measures to reform politics ‘the most significant programme of empowerment by a British government since the great reforms of the 19th Century’, indeed since the Great Reform Act of 1832.
"...for someone who says he has embraced a new way of doing politics Clegg’s grand rhetoric bears all the hallmarks of the spin and over-selling which the previous Labour administration was said to be guilty of..."
The new Baldwin?
"I for one think that the past is as much of a guide to the future as our current neophilia. On that basis, LibDems beware!"Few Liberal Democrats have put their coalition with the Conservatives into historical perspective. This is partly due to all politicians’ intoxication with the supposed novelty of any situation these days, something they share with most of their fellow citizens. How many times did Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg assert their embrace of a ‘new politics’?
Friday, 14 May 2010
What’s 5% between friends?
One of the most striking statements of the last few days was William Hague’s claim that ‘the next general election will be held on the first Thursday of May, 2015’. That is, by the way, 7 May. One for the diary, maybe? And it’s all because of this clause in the coalition agreement:
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