Is the struggle to retain the 20 seat boundary bonus doomed? It’s being reported by the Telegraph’s Ben Brogan that Cameron is working on a plan to offer the LDs a deal on state funding party funding as a new quid pro quo for getting the boundary changes through. Brogan writes: “…over the next year or so Mr Clegg will find a way to back the boundary review when it comes up for a vote in the Commons. In exchange,…
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BBC A “rainbow coalition” would be less reliant on the SNP One of the key drivers behind the 2010 coalition was that a CON-LD pact was the only one that appeared feasible given the election outcome. All the talk of a “rainbow alliance” required bringing together all the non-Tory MPs and it was hard to see how that could be managed. Any one of the assorted parties could wield enormous power if it came to a confidence vote. The impact…
Is that going to be the global legacy? There’s a great verdict on London 2012 in today’s Sydney Morning Herald – one of the leading newspapers in Australia. This is the country, of course, which has been the butt of many jokes in the past forthnight. Greg Baum writes: “London, you didn’t half do a decent job. These Olympics had Sydney’s vibrancy, Athens’s panache, Beijing’s efficiency, and added British know-how and drollery. With apologies to Sydney, they might just represent…
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Will there be a penalty for delaying the process? One consequential development from Clegg’s statement on the boundaries is that his party and Labour are now both choosing candidates based on the 2010 election electoral map. It’s generally regarded as good campaigning practice to get your choice made early so that the Prospective Parliamentary Candidate can build up a presence in the area. This is particularly important in the marginals where the odd few hundred votes can be decisive. Labour…
Will this add to the “feelgood factor” at home? New US polling finds that Americans overwhelmingly believe that Britain and London have run a successful Olympic Games. A CNN/ORC survey asked ““How successful would you say the city of London and the government of Great Britain have been at hosting this year’s Olympic Games: very successful, somewhat successful, not very successful, or not successful at all?” The findings are really quite staggering:- “Very successful†66% “Somewhat†26% “Not very†1%…