Could the favourite start to put off donors? Over the past 48 hours all the money on the Republican party nominee has gone on Rick Perry – the flamboyant governor of Texas who joined the race at the weekend. Some bookies have priced him at 5/4 – which is an amazingly tight price on an event that won’t be settled for at least a year. As the clip above shows that Perry has attracted the wrath of veteran GOP campaigner…
Guardian After being out of the news for a fortnight or so the hacking scandal is back at the top of the bulletins with the publication by the commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee of a letter by Clive Goodman that appears to be in direct contradiction to much of the evidence given by NI executives in last month’s hearings. Politically the most significant elements relate to David Cameron’s ex-Number 10 communications chief, Andy Coulson, who is alleged to have…
Is the time ripe for such changes? Next May, if things go to plan, there’ll be a whole new set of elections all over England with the exception of London. These are for the directly-elected police commissioners of which there will be 41. They take over the functions of the existing police authorities and will be very much the public faces of policing in their areas. The electorates for the new jobs will be all those on the electoral roll…
Hunchman & Augustus Carp David Herdson & James Burdett Sunil & Sean Fear Peter the Punter & Paul Maggs Scarpia & Nick Palmer Greg Callus (Morus) There are many more pictures which I will feature tomorrow.
Will he get the required 100,000 by February? As I’m sure we all know Guid is running a campaign to get capital punishment restored for certain cases of serious murder and he’s set up a petition on the Number 10 e-petitions site. If the total reach the threshold of 100,000 within six months then it becomes eligible to be debated in the commons. His move has received a fair bit of attention in the media and also prompted a rival…
Are we seeing the return of tactical voting The latest poll of voting intentions in the South West of England is just out and has good news for the Lib Dems and UKIP but bad news for Labour. As can be seen from the chart Labour are down from 28% two months ago to 21% now though this is still six points up on what they did in the region at the general election. The Tories, meanwhile, are down 2…
Should you take the 7/1 that Cameron will get his way? Overnight I put a bet on with Ladbrokes at 7/1 that the American who as been boss of several US police forces, including New York, Bill Bratton, will get the job as Metropolitan Police commissioner. This appointment is reported to becoming becoming a trial of strength between Number 10 and the Home Office with the latter making it a job requirement that the post goes to a British citizen….
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