Is Obama just bluffing?

Is it just a co-incidence that,  now Obama can no longer force through legislation,   he’s brought up the issues to deal with the banks?  With little chance of getting through, the little people that funded half of his election costs (with their dollar or two) will not feel so aggrieved and the big people who [...]

No-one to win next UK General Election!

The newly-formed “no-one” Party (New One-Off NonEntities) look set to take the country over in the forthcoming General Election in the UK.  In pretty much every previous election, more people have voted for no-one than for any other party.  No-one has noticed this – and so it has formed a party so that voters can [...]

Reformation Lite

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When is a reformation not a reformation?
Exhibit #1.
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• More power for parliamentary select committees to scrutinise legislation.
• More power to be devolved to local government.
• The language of the chamber – such as calling MPs “my right honourable friend”.
• The [...]

European Elections 2009

Are these elections relevant? Will anyone care?
David Cameron is trying to use these as a platform to call for a general election in the UK, will the results of these european elections indicate the mood of the country or will people just be reacting to current issues which they will forget further down the line?
A remarkable [...]

No way to save us

 
I dont think saying sorry will make any difference anymore.
You say sorry to someone for accidently bumping into them in the street, not for systematically screwing what you can within the rules of parliamentary expenses.
For that you have to first resign, then say sorry, nothing else cuts the mustard for people who would have us [...]

Anyone want a different way?

No significant numbers of people will vote for it at the moment but they would if the media put even half the effort into it as they do to promoting the status quo.
I think people will vote for an alternative vision if it is compelling and backed up by debate and publicity. Once it reached [...]

Making a Stand

I have decided to put myself forward as a propective MEP in the june elections.
The only way I can do this is to go via the JuryTeam route.
In order to be nominated I need as many people as possible to text the word
NEIMOR01 to 86837
So thanks for your support.
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Please go, Gordon!

(Please Login or Register to see the link.)Kalvis Jansons, who started this petition said “There are many reasons why we might want Brown to resign, but rather than having lots of narrow petitions on this topic (most of which have been rejected), I wanted one for all of us“. There are nearly 9,000 [...]

Participating In Democracy

It has suddenly dawned on me!
We have a Parliament. In that parliament are a bunch of our employees. The ones I’m talking about are the MPs.
What we do as a population is give them a job. But we do not behave as bosses.
Most of us sit and complain or cheer at what [...]

Giving anarchy a bad name

(Please Login or Register to see the link.)Media coverage for the upcoming G20 protests in London – especially for “Financial Fools Day” seems intent on branding anarchists as the bad guys – but how much are they in control? On the one hand is the suggestion that they are are a bunch of deadbeat [...]