2012: The year of Dave?
2011 has been a turbulent year. The eurozone crisis has dominated the political agenda not only in the UK and Europe but worldwide. We’ve seen the death of three dictators, military involvement in...
View ArticleHow Ed Miliband could build on his Conservative idea
The more I read about this welfare cap, the crosser I get. Not because it will take money away from anyone – far from it, frankly; more because it will still give people who don’t work over three times...
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Ed Miliband is onto something about political parties
Ed Miliband’s speech to the Progress Conference is worth closer consideration. He seems to get that the story of the local elections was that the majority of peoples’ rejected democracy as being able...
View ArticleWe deserve a banking inquiry, we can benefit from a banking inquiry
Ed Miliband talked about it. The Tax Payers Alliance support it. There needs to be a public inquiry into the relationship between the Financial industry and British society. When the credit crunch...
View ArticleThe real lesson of Ed Miliband’s speech is how much more Labour wants to win
I was at lunch during Ed’s speech so “followed” it on Twitter, and clearly it was going rather well – not just Labour loyalists but also hacks were being very positive. Tim Montgomerie pointed out that...
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Ed Miliband’s latest Conservative idea
[blackbirdpie url="https://twitter.com/PlatformTen/status/253407429616889856"] Here is the thing about Ed Miliband’s conference speech. It was indeed well-delivered (though now he’s done it once the...
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How should the Conservatives use David Cameron?
James Forsyth’s column in this week’s Spectator is annoyingly rather similar to something I have been pondering for a while. He argues that all the indications are that the Conservatives will be using...
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Unite against the vested interests
Front page of The Times, 3 July 2013 (image via @suttonnick) Like Robert Halfon, Max Wind-Cowie, David Skelton – and many, many other Conservatives – I think unions are fundamentally a good thing. They...
View Article2 Big Challenges that Ed Miliband’s speech poses to the Conservative Party
As Ed Miliband knows only too well, most speeches have next to no impact. Today’s speech could be different. One of the biggest challenges facing Westminster villager is to reverse society’s drift away...
View ArticleWhy wait till it becomes a problem?
It made me giggle during the Labour leadership campaign that Ed Miliband’s offices were in the exact same building as the Cameron Campaign’s had been. Then he launched a bunch of policy groups to look...
View ArticleComplicated theories that make things simpler
In Opposition, both David Cameron and Ed Miliband set up policy review groups as an effective way to mark a break with what went before and to engage NGOs and experts into their big tent to generate...
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Meaningfully rebutting Labour’s tuition fees policy
Change in university entry rates, 2006-14 (via @afneil and UCAS) Like so many other Labour policies, it’s obvious that they have got their sums wrong on their new tuition fees policy. They’d remove up...
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(Only) Three Reasons to Vote Conservative
The polls say the election’s outcome is up in the air, but one thing is clear – the Tories are close to polling better than the 36.1% share of the vote won in 2010. No mean feat given the perils and...
View ArticleEd Miliband’s Conservative idea: Why the living wage makes sense
Lush (that very very over-scented shop for bath things) has become the first retailer to commit to paying a living wage. As a company that prides itself on its ethical stance, this is a good thing. It...
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Beware weak Labour
The most negative story for Ed Miliband – in a weekend of a high number of unhelpful comments – was the leaking of the speech David Miliband planned to give if he was chosen as leader. Unlike the Balls...
View ArticleWhy Ed Miliband was partly right but can’t do anything about it
Yesterday afternoon, I was idly muttering about Ed Miliband’s speech with one of my colleagues who I think wouldn’t be averse to being described as a proper Newish Labour type. We were discussing the...
View ArticleDavid Cameron’s make or break moment
The photos of David Cameron in Libya last week are pure political gold dust. They are the images politicians dream of. The shots of Cameron being cheered and applauded were not just shown in the UK but...
View ArticleEd Miliband’s conservative strategy
As Labour gathers for its party conference, there is a great deal of scepticism about their chances of winning power. Agonising over their economic credibility, concerned about Ed Miliband’s poor...
View Article2012: The year of Dave?
2011 has been a turbulent year. The eurozone crisis has dominated the political agenda not only in the UK and Europe but worldwide. We’ve seen the death of three dictators, military involvement in...
View ArticleHow Ed Miliband could build on his Conservative idea
The more I read about this welfare cap, the crosser I get. Not because it will take money away from anyone – far from it, frankly; more because it will still give people who don’t work over three times...
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