RBS Will this be another big headache for Labour? One of the big services that the taxpayer-owned bank provides is RBS Streamline – a mechanism by which retailers and other others can offer credit/debit card facilities. As we move more and more away from cash this side of the bank’s business has grown and grown and RBS is now a leader in its field. So how come that the firm is now, apparently, subjecting those merchants who want to use…
PoliticsHome Is PH’s “Voter enthusiasm” survey a good guide to the result? A new survey this afternoon from PoliticsHome appears to provide a massive boost to David Cameron on ther second day of his return to work after being on bereavement leave following the death of his son. Firstly respondents were asked a constituency specific voting intention which is somewhat different to that which we normally see. It read “How would you vote if there was a general election tomorrowâ€,…
What are the dangers if something should happen to Dave? Over the past fortnight quite a few people have commented about the lack of sparkle in the UK political scene because of the absence of David Cameron following the death of his son. And this extended, to a certain extent, to his party as a whole for without their leader the Conservative had a much smaller impact on the media agenda. Thus George Osborne’s big speech on the economy at…
Is Pickles right – there’s no substitute for personal contact? Hardly a day goes by, it seems, without one grouping or another promising us great things “because of the internet”. Look at this week. We had the launch of “The Jury Team” party where everything is supposed to happen magically because of the internet. Funding? No problem – we’ll raise money on internet. Finding and selecting candidates? No problem – it’ll all be done via the internet….and so on. Then…
Guardian.co.uk Why won’t they even answer the phone? A story running tonight suggests that Brown’s plan to use next month’s G20 meeting in London as key part of his personal recovery plan might not work out so smoothly after all. As the Guardian reports the cabinet secretary, Sir Gus O’Donnell, told a conference in Gateshead that No 10 was having trouble even getting in touch with key personnel at the US treasury department. “There is nobody there – you cannot…
The Daily Show With Jon StewartM – Th 11p / 10c Brown in the USA Daily Show Full EpisodesImportant Things With Demetri Martin Political HumorEconomic Crisis The TV programme I always try to watch each day is Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” with Jon Stewart which is normally shown the day after in the UK on the More4 channel. This is how they covered the Gordon Brown visit in the programme last night which should screened in the UK this…
BBC News Online Could this split the Eurosceptic vote? So another day and another new party enters the UK political scene with the intention of fighting every seat at June’s elections for the European Parliament. The Libertas move looks serious given the success it had in the Irish Lisbon treaty referendum last year and the fact that it is planning to put up candidates in every single EU state. The party says it is not anti-EU but rather it wants…
PB poll suggests that Brown needs new rhetoric After the assertion here on Friday that a PoliticsHome poll on “Gord saying sorry” was leading the site’s editor, Freddie Sayers, offered PB the chance of its own exclusive polling question. In keeping with the theme the chosen subject area was the repeated use of the term “do nothing” by Labour to describe the Tory stance on the banking crisis and the general economic situation. We only had a very short time…