Posts Tagged ‘Brown’
A Sign of the Times
December 9th, 2009 | 
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In yesterday’s Times, a Murdoch owned newspaper, there was a leading Editorial called: “Preparing for Government” and subtitled: “David Cameron seems content to drift into power on the back of Labour’s unpopularity. Even if this strategy succeeds it will provide no mandate to govern”. As ever I give you the link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article6948033.ece
I will start with a copy of my ‘unpublished comment’ and whilst one may say based upon the content, “Fair Enough” but to be fair to the Times, they have published similar from me before so, I guess it depends who is on the “desk” at the time. However, there are other issues here too which need to be examined…
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Tags: Brown, Conservatives, Labour, Politics, UK Economy, Within the UK | 
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Polling Data
To much amusement, there was an Opinion Poll commissioned by and published in the Observer that showed that Labour was ‘closing the gap’ with the Conservatives but as usual in the Independent, the rather more sensible subscribers put that into some perspective and, amusingly so. The ‘blogosphere’ may be guilty of many things but “Comments” on the broadsheets can often be just so constructive and worth exploration.
This comment was priceless, do follow the links – “IPSOS Mori polls are biased towards Labour because they don’t politically weight their sample. And with small samples (like this sample of 1006) that is important. The explanation is here: http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/blog/faq-weighting (scroll down to “Political Weighting” and then to “Ipsos MORI”). “
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Tags: Brown, Conservatives, EU, Gordon Brown, UK Economy, Within the UK |
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Extending the 28 days…
There is absolutely no case for extending detention without charge beyond 28 days and even that (28 days), is questionable in itself. I would suggest that Parliament generally and the Labour Government specifically, have completely failed to grasp the core issues here. Everybody needs to stand back and reassess the whole issue from a different perspective, a perspective of protecting society as best as possible without destroying what you are trying to protect, namely freedom, democracy and the rule of law.