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Henry G Manson on Danny A’s Newsnight comments After a public meeting in March Nick Clegg quipped to David Cameron ‘if we keep doing this we won’t find anything to bloody disagree on in the bloody TV debates.’ The comments were picked up on microphone riled some Lib Dems that a fixed-term coalition was now hardening into something more enduring. Of course since then there has been a wide range of issues in which the Lib Dems have sought to…

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Will she resign over the HS2 route? The Rt Hon Cheryl Gillan MP’s imminent resignation should be the least surprising ministerial departure for many a year. From day one of the Coalition Government the Secretary of State for Wales made her opposition to High Speed Rail 2 known. With little sign that the original route will avoid her Chesham and Amersham constituency it is likely she will resign within a month. The Cabinet Minister told the Bucks Free Press in…

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Blair Freebairn looks back and looks forward Thomas Huxley’s observation that many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact is an often ignored truth. Back in 2007 on this site I theorised that the coming 2010 election was going to be decided not in cities, rural areas or Scotland, but in the English towns. So what actually happened? Above are the 2010 results on a map distorted so that each constituency takes up roughly the same area. The…

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Henry G Manson weighs up the options I’ve lived through enough recessions to know the misery it brings hundreds of thousands of individuals, homeowners and business owners. There is something psychological damaging for a country to be in recession. It can feel something akin to a foreign occupation with a skyfull of dark clouds overhead. That is why the last quarter’s 0.5% growth figures were important. Any improvement on expectations must be welcomed and I think Labour should have given…

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Henry G Manson’s weekly column A week ago Tim Montgomerie astutely identified the need for the Conservative Party to being on the side of ‘the little guy’ as part of a renewed effort to win their first majority since 1992. The ConHome Editor pointed to research of marginals from Lord Ashcroft that showed that ‘among target voters there is a sense that we are a party of the rich’. This is something that will not change overnight but can only…

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A guest slot from “PB’s Man on the Rock” In Gibraltar’s forthcoming general election, now only a month away, the Chief Minister Peter Caruana is hoping to be re-elected for a fifth consecutive term in office although, after being in power for the last 16 years, he has made it clear that, were he to be successful, this would be his last election. Under Caruana, Gibraltar has become something of an on-line Las Vegas in Europe. About 20 online betting…

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