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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 Oldham East & Saddleworth by-election in England is on today. Voting is finished, they're in the counting phase now, with results expected soon . By all reckoning, Labour have won. Despite the Tories having abdicated in favor of the Lib Dems, the latter look to have come a dismal second. These by-elections are interesting not in the least because they will point the way to the outcome of the...
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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has been off touring flood hit locations in Queensland. Her administration is under greater threat than is commonly realized. Economically, 2011 will not be the year of strident growth that 2010 was for Australia, by the reckoning of most. House prices remain either stagnant or have been gradually dropping. The miners tax deal has created its own problems....
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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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Have been reading news on the British Spending Review which took place on October 20. There is a lot to piece together. Three statements, out of all this commentary, stood out for me: Britain will be a bad place to be poor in . The cuts were opportunistically aimed at those without political clout . Of the 450,000 public sector jobs lost, 300,000 would be held by women . The last commentator poin...
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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 one stroke, UK's Chancellor George Osborn has taken women three steps back . He's announced today at the annual Conservative Conference, that under the Conservative Government's austerity plans, the UK's Benefits system will be reformed. 1. A family is entitled to 1 salary, no more, no matter its composition and its needs. 2. If a man does not pay for the upkeep of his family, the State will n...
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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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Last week, news leaked out that Liam Fox, the Defense Secretary of the United Kingdom, had written a letter to David Cameron warning that draconian cuts to the military budget would not work. Today, as the annual Conservative Conference started, there were indications that David Cameron had softened his stand regarding the cuts to the military budget . At the same time, David Cameron confirmed wh...
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