The Politics of Solutions
Nearly everyone involved in politics has been told by a voter: ‘You are all the same.’ Given the Punch and Judy parliamentary routine, it can look like politicians spend a lot of time attacking each other, trying to explain how different we are from each other, when what our constituents want are ...
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Getting London working
I was pleased to see in Ed Miliband’s speech last week the announcement that Labour would devolve the spending on back-to-work schemes to local councils. This is something London Councils, which represents the capital’s boroughs, has long been arguing for and we will be looking closely at the next release of work programme data on …
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The type of class war we should believe in
In the centre of York in the mid-1980s there used to be two pieces of graffiti on adjacent walls. One shouted, ‘No war but the class war’; the other advised: ‘Eat the rich, feed the poor’. Maybe the same person wrote them both? If so, it wasn’t the prime minister. Margaret Thatcher wouldn’t have had …
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Beyond the point of sanguinity
UKIP is no aberration but a symptom of British politics’ dangerous malaise, writes Anthony Painter The pattern is well established. Something surprising happens in an election. Those who were predicting an outlier moment suddenly move centre-stage. Bewildered politicians pop up to say how we must listen and learn. They generally then say whatever it is …
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Miliband statesmanlike on Syria
Not a stellar PMQs from anyone this week and in general more noise than light. It began raucously enough with a Labour question on A&E and a Tory one about a referendum on Europe. Things then calmed down as Ed used his first three questions to press the Prime Minister on the vitally important issue …
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A Brexit for workplace rights?
Instead of focusing on the issues that matter, the Conservative party is again descending into one of its periodic bouts of Europhobic obsession, as evidenced yet again today with their site Let Britain Decide. Immigration is perhaps the main cause of their unease with the European Union. But alongside this the desire to wrest back …
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Why 1983 is still important today
Success has many fathers, particularly if you are a member of Labour’s hard-left and you are discussing elections. The triumphs of 1997, 2001, or 2005 have any number of antecedents: Black Wednesday, John Major, John Redwood, John Smith, Neil Kinnock, Michael Howard, William Hague, anyone really, as long as it isn’t Tony Blair. But curiously, …
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