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Tag Archives: Green Party
Green behind their ears?
It appears that the BBC, that lumbering ancient British institution has finally bowed to license fee payers pressure over the forthcoming leaders debates and will hold a consultation on the make-up of the 3 events. Quite why this has taken … Continue reading
Posted in Parliament and Democracy
Tagged BBC, General Election 2015, Green Party, Leaders Debates, Natalie Bennett
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The failure of the SYPCC election
Today the electors of South Yorkshire will discover who their new Police and Crime Commissioner will be. They will discover which man will replace the disgraced Shaun Wright, the Labour PCC who refused for months to take any responsibility for a … Continue reading
A media fit for purpose
There can be no excuse for our 3 major broadcasters, working together as they did to come up with such an incompetent set of proposals as they announced yesterday. Not only do they have substantial resources to allow a meaningful … Continue reading
Posted in Parliament and Democracy
Tagged BBC, Channel 4, Conservative Party, DUP, Green Party, ITV, Labour Party, Lib Dem Party, Plaid Cymru, Sky, SNP, UKIP
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Stop the tit for tat arguments
This weekend I participated in the briefest of twitter dialogues with a few Labour supporters in my constituency. Their line was that only Labour was opposed to the coalition and so it was vital to vote Labour at the General Election. I … Continue reading
That’ll do nicely
Yesterday BBC Radio broke the news that Labour were the best funded Political Party in the UK during 2013. This lead over the Conservatives was almost entirely due to the donations that you and I made to the Party. As the official Opposition Party they receive … Continue reading
Posted in Parliament and Democracy
Tagged Conservative Party, Green Party, Labour Party, Lib Dem Party, Political Donations, UKIP
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Media responsibility
My broadcaster of choice, BBC Radio 4 has been reporting the results of the Newark by-election with some regularity this morning. Despite the actual results the BBC have been acting as though they cannot count. They have explained carefully that … Continue reading
Equal access to oxygen
As I wrote on Monday, the Newark By-Election that is taking place next Thursday is a very unequal struggle. On the one side there are five Political Parties which are well resourced and sending in significant numbers of people from … Continue reading
Posted in Parliament and Democracy
Tagged Andy Hayes, Dick Rodgers, Green Party, Independent Candidates, Newark, Paul Baggaley
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We need credible electoral systems
There is no such thing as a perfect electoral system. Our various elected representatives are currently elected under three different mechanisms. The dominant first past the post arrangement in use in local government and British Parliamentary elections, is at variance from the … Continue reading
Welcome to the Village
After 15 years in Professional Politics, 9 seats in a Parliament that they claim to despise but whose funding has maintained the party and now around 250 or so Councillors, UKIP needs to accept it has arrived in the Westminster Village, … Continue reading
The end of democracy as we know it?
In five days time it will all be over, we will have voted in what could quite realistically be our last ever European Election. It will be the final chance for my family and around 8M other people to be … Continue reading
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