Monthly Archives: July 2010

The DWP Consultation paper on Welfare reform is nothing short of comical. It’s getting treated  as some sort of proposal, when it’s more the political equivalent of saying “wouldn’t be good if we all had ponies?“. The entire “proposal” section … Continued

A brief series where, for my own amusement (and possibly ensuring I never work for the Labour Party again), I set out the case against each of the Leadership candidates. The eleventh commandment of internal elections is “Never speak ill … Continued

Well Done Nick Clegg. The aim of a negotiation is to maximise what you get out of the subsequent deal. So he was dead right to try and lever as many concessions as he could out of David Cameron. I … Continued

A brief series where, for my own amusement (and possibly ensuring I never work for the Labour Party again), I set out the case against each of the Leadership candidates. The eleventh commandment of internal elections is “Never speak ill … Continued

Yes, it’s time for the Total Politics Blog Poll thingummy again. Look, I know these things are stupid and unscientific and silly. Couldn’t agree more. But if I come near the top, I get asked to go on the Telly … Continued

A brief series where, for my own amusement (and possibly ensuring I never work for the Labour Party again), I set out the case against each of the Leadership candidates. The eleventh commandment of internal elections is “Never speak ill … Continued

My criticism of the Taxpayers’ Alliance report on Welfare reform has sparked some response from right wing blogs – a good thing too, since I don’t want to spend all my time criticising Labour leadership candidates. Yesterday the folks over … Continued

A brief series where, for my own amusement (and possibly ensuring I never work for the Labour party again), I set out the case against each of the Leadership candidates. The eleventh commandment of internal elections is “Never speak ill … Continued

The Taxpayers’ alliance have responded to my (not particularly flattering) analysis of their Welfare reform report. First of all, it’s good of them to respond. They could easily have not bothered. Moving to the content of their response, it’s basically … Continued

A thought (only partly inspired by Mr John Rentoul’s series “Questions to which the answer is No”): A major point in the 2010 General Election campaign was the announcement of Q1 2010 GDP growth on April 23rd. Labour strategists had … Continued