Louis Connor 09/12/09 MPs’ have thrown their support behind a new Demos publication, Service Nation, proposing the introduction of a new National Civic Service, for young people. The Service would be a mandatory scheme seeing young people compelled to undertake small periods of voluntary work in an attempt to improve their employability skills and serving their local [...]
The Mob Ruled
Louis Connor (03/11/09) Nick Griffins appearance on Question Time was controlled by mob rule, wherby the tactics of a racist were deployed against a racist – prodding, provoking and inciting that which is different and un-orthodox. The BNP were not tackled as a party fixated on race. Lets either facilitate proper debate or open up [...]
The Labour Party R.I.P – Former Party of Government.
Louis Connor (19/10/09) The election of David Cameron as Prime Minister, coupled with his plans to reduce the size of Parliament by 10%, and the pressure on the devolved budgets will all conspire to increase the momentum behind calls from the SNP to hold a referendum on Scottish independence sometime in Spring/Summer 2010. A smaller [...]
Accountable to the people, representative of the people.
Louis Connor Bar the current fixation on spending cuts and whether they are going be ‘kind’, ‘savage’ or ‘sustainable’, when did Parliamentary reform slip off the political agenda? When the MPs’ expenses scandal was unravelling one could be forgiven for thinking we were on the cusp of wholesale constitutional, electoral and parliamentary reform. Yet following [...]
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