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By now, the question whether the UK will have another general election in 2011, seems moot. Signs point to an emergency election later this year. The open question is, would political fragmentation continue? Will the UK move from one coalition to another? From Conservative + LibDem to Labour + LibDem ? The results of the AV referendum, originally scheduled for May 5, now likely to be postponed du...
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The Daily Mail has published an article noting that the Lib Dems are unlikely to split from the ruling coalition in the UK. The arguments are certainly persuasive. In fact, in my post on UK politics just 4 days ago, I'd advocated that Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, capitalize on David Cameron's obsession about not letting the Lib Dems split and join Labour. Thinking about it from the economic pe...
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The Guardian reports today that David Miliband, pipped to the Labour leader's post by his younger brother Ed earlier this year, is being considered for the position of the UK's ambassador to America. There is no doubting David Miliband's capabilities. He has extensive foreign policy and international relations experience. That said, the key US-UK dynamic is in play here. Consider the inevitable d...
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There have been signs, scattered here and there, that David Cameron, the Conservative British Prime Minister, senses that general elections are closer than 2015. 1) The day the wedding between William Wales and Kate Middleton was announced, David Cameron reversed the decision to pay his photographer using taxpayer's money 2) In late November, first that benefits cap was rolled back to January 201...
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A UK by-election taking place in the constituency of Oldham East and Saddleworth, on January 13, appears to have become a platform for some very interesting national trends. A large number of factors seem to be at play here. The most critical one is whether the UK has a hope, once the Tory-Lib Dem ruling coalition is out of power. Ordinarily, with general elections set for 2015, a by-election in...
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One could understand it when David Cameron casting himself increasingly as "Blair's Heir" in 2007. Tony Blair was Prime Minister then, though a Labour Prime Minister, and David Cameron was attempting to entrench himself as Tory leader. One could even understand Gordon Brown invoking Margaret Thatcher in 2007, after becoming Prime Minister. He wanted to portray himself as a tough man, in nobody's...
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With each passing day, Ed Miliband, Labour leader, shows a clear vision. His actions and speeches remain consistent. He has appointed his shadow cabinet today, allocating portfolios among those MPs who were elected to be part of this shadow cabinet, by their peers. His selection has been called surprising , because Yvette Cooper was widely tipped to be Shadow Chancellor, but has been made Shadow...
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Am watching David Cameron delivering the closing speech to the Conservative Conference. He starts out on a self-congratulatory note, concluding by saying to the effect that here the Tories were, back from the dead. He then moves on to praise Margaret Thatcher, and assures everyone she would spend her next birthday evening at 10 Dawning. Thunderous applause. These people are even more clueless tha...
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The soul of the people is rarely up on display openly. You typically don't see it strung up in bold letters, hung from tall buildings, lit up bright. It's in the little, unconscious things. Let slip. Glimpsed from the corner of the eye. The British feel besieged by climate change and by immigrants. You can dismiss to 10 by 10 campaign, Monbiot , and the occasional rally on Trafalgar Square. You c...
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In her address to the Labour party, while closing its annual Conference, Deputy Leader Harriet Harman noted a critical point. Labour maintains a laser focus on the future . This entire theme of departure from New Labour and from the Left, is not so much about rejecting, but about looking ahead. New Labour in particular, promised everything to everyone. How could it fail to attract? The Left is co...
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