Creating a coalition narrative
If the coalition partners accepts that they needs a separate narrative separate, and it is unclear if they do, how would you create such a story? The story has to begin with the wishes of the voters....
View ArticleModernising industrial relations law is a necessity
Today was the day that we learnt that up to three quarters of a million public sector workers have agreed to take coordinated strike action over government changes to pensions. They really ought to...
View ArticleIndustrial Relations – Part Deux
My last contribution on industrial relations law didn’t go down well in some quarters. C’est la vie. However, it couldn’t escape my notice that the Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander had...
View ArticleDanny Alexander is right on pension reform
Trade Unions are organisations committed to getting the best possible deal for their members. Public sector pensions have been a sensational deal for some time, funded as they are by committing future...
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Tories call on David Brent to save the UK economy
Politics makes strange bedfellows; coalitions especially. In the 1970s the Liberals made a pact with socialists despite socialism being the antithesis of liberalism; in 2010 the coalition finds us in...
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Cloud cuckoo tax
On Sunday the Liberal Democrat Chief Secretary to the Treasury, Danny Alexander, echoed the Business Secretary, Vince Cable, that the 50p income tax rate, introduced by the previous Labour government,...
View ArticleThe death of liberal Conservatism (c.2006-2011)?
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. I think it was around 2006 that David Cameron first referred to himself as a ’liberal Conservative’. Three years later, he penned an article...
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The future’s bright…the future’s orange
A personal view of Conference 2011: I walked away from conference on Wednesday with that bloody annoying mobile phone company’s strap-line in my head. I certainly didn’t expect that when I headed out...
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Chris Huhne goes, but is this the Rule of Law(s)?
So Chris Huhne (and ex-wife Vicky Pryce) is to be charged with perverting the course of justice as a result of allegations that the former Environment Secretary Secretary of State for Energy and...
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Support for the Coalition Melts
Voters have expressed their cold feet at the direction of the coalition across the country. In one Edinburgh ward, a man dressed as a penguin – Professor Pongoo – gained more first preference votes...
View ArticleMoving On From Rochester…
Lord Unappealing is attempting to make himself relevant again by opining on something for which he does at least have historic expertise, by-elections. His number crunching is no doubt correct, the...
View ArticleNick Clegg Was A Bad Leader
I feel that someone should just say it. Despite showing a great deal of dignity in the End, here are my brief impressions of where Clegg went badly, badly wrong: 1. Clegg did not reform the party...
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