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Will Campbell Bannerman’s exit put more pressure on Farage?
BBC News What’s going wrong at the anti-EU party? Just a fortnight after one of UKIP’s leading figures, Marta Andreasen, called on Nigel Farage to resign there’s been another blow to the party leader, Nigel Farage. One of the party’s senior MEPs and a candidate in last autumn’s leadership election, David Campbell Bannerman, has announced that he’s defecting to the Tories. He said: the party had become “obsessed with single issue politics, internal fighting and shouting from the sidelines…With the…
If Ken loses will it be Ed’s neck on the chopping block?
HenryG on the challenges facing the Labour leader A significant article has just been published on the Tribune website – the journal of Labour’s heart and with longstanding union ties. It accurately sums up the frustrations many of us who supported Ed Miliband for Labour leadership have. It correctly identifies the importance of the London mayoral election and the growing unease at a tactical lack of unity behind Ken Livingstone’s campaign. It is my firm view that if Ken loses…
Are you tempted by Obama bingo?
Will Obama say any of these? Ladbrokes price The Queen 1/4 Special Relationship 1/3 Northern Ireland 1/2 Democracy 1/2 Pakistan 4/6 Middle East evens Al Qaida 5/4 Olympics 6/4 Taliban 7/4 Royal Wedding 2/1 Gadaffi 2/1 Nine-Eleven 2/1 G20 2/1 Bin Laden 3/1 Shared Values 3/1 Royal Family 3/1 Historic Ties 4/1 Trusted Ally 4/1 War Of Independance 8/1 War on Terror 8/1 Healthcare 10/1 Gordon Brown 10/1 Winston Churchill 12/1 Barbecue 14/1 B.P 16/1 Yes We Can 16/1 Guinness…
Was this an abuse of parliamentary privlige?
As predicted here this morning the name of the footballer at the heart of the super injunction row was named by an MP this afternoon in the chamber. John Hemming is protected by parliamentary privilege and almost all the main news orgnaisations are reporting what he said. Quite where this will end up is hard to say – but this is the main political story of the day and everybody is talking about it. Would posters please restrict themselves to…
Marf on Super Injunction Monday
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Who’ll prevail in the gagging order stand-off?
Will the real losers be the judges? Several of the front pages are devoted to the super-injunction story and it looks as though we could see further developments I just wonder whether an MP or a peer will find a way of getting this latest case into the open today using parliamentary privilege in the way that details about the former RBS boss, Fred Goodwin, were revealed last week. We are in for an interesting few days. Mike Smithson
I’m not sure about your polling claims Jackie
Guardian ..” let’s remember he (Ed Miliband) already has a five- or six-point lead in most of the recent opinion polls..” – Jackie Ashley Guardian May 22 Mike Smithson