Making the long term unemployed spend 4 weeks doing unpaid work All voters CON voters LAB voters LD voters Support 73 92 58 83 Oppose 17 3 31 14 Don’t know 10 5 10 3 Withdrawing Jobseekers Allowance from those who turn down a job offer or interview All voters CON voters LAB voters LD voters Support 66 82 57 71 Oppose 21 8 33 22 Don’t know 12 9 10 6 More stringent testing for people receiving Disability Living…
Will there be let up in the pace of change? It was May 11th 2010, my 64th birthday in fact, that the coalition was formed and David Cameron replaced Gordon Brown at Number 10. So today we reach the six month mark and what a half year that has been. Whether you agree with what’s been proposed or not you cannot deny that the pace of change has been breath-taking. I cannot in my life-time remember such a period of…
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Should “innocent until proved guilty” apply to all? As the divide within Labour over Woolas continues there’s a furious attack by the New Statesman’s Mehdi Hasan on those Labour figures who are suppoprting the ex-immigration minister and former NUS president. Looking at the reasoning of the Woolas defenders Hasan writes: “Innocent until proven guilty” is not a good enough defence – as Labour keeps reminding David Cameron over his communications director, Andy Coulson. “The Woolas debacle has rendered null and…
SkyNew picture gallery Could the students spark off wider violence? It’s become almost fashionable in recent times to contrast the lack of action on the streets in Britain with that seen so often across the channel particularly in France. It’s almost as though we are suggesting that the Brits are somehow superior because they don’t act like continentals. Well that view has taken a hammering today in more ways than one. The pictures do look shocking and, clearly, this would…
How important is the student vote? As promised the NUS has launched its campaign of protests against student fees with a threat to unseat Lib Dem MPs. The situation is developing and the question is what will be the impact politically? One problem the NUS have is that they might be good at demos they have never shown the serious resolve to get students onto the electoral register and out to vote It’s that grunt work that could make them…
Oldham E & Saddleworth decision – right or wrong? (YouGov) All voters CON voters LAB voters LD voters Right 71 82 65 82 Wrong 7 4 12 `8 Don’t know 22 14 23 10 Should there be laws to stop candidates lying about their rivals? (YouGov) All voters CON voters LAB voters LD voters “It is right that there should be laws†74 86 69 77 “Such laws are a restriction on free speech and risk preventing robust debate†9…