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Is Labour about to get a kicking?

Welcome to Casting the net, Liberal Conspiracy’s daily web review. As always, please feel free to share your own recommendations in the comments.

The Guardian – Predicting big losses for Labour on Thursday.
David Aaronovitch – On how Brown’s “supporters” have left him high and dry. Aaronovitch also attacks his former employers at The Guardian.
Chicken Yoghurt – Justin has some fun with a meme (BTW, our Justin’s in a foul mood today).
Anton Vowl – Thinking The Daily Hate makes blogging far too easy.
Bob Piper – On being a hotel lobby revolutionary.
e8voive – Asks “Why is Obama not doing worse?”
Rachel from north London – Reminds us to wary of The War on Terror, and those who “fight it”, on our behalf.

This week’s Britblog roundup can be read over at Amused Cynicism.

Turning politics into a cartel

Two recent politic stories highlight just how rapidly remaining differences between the only two political parties in Britain capable of forming governments continue to erode. That can only be to the detriment of voter choice.

First off, we read that the Smith Institute – a thinktank linked with Gordon Brown – and the Centre for Social Justice – a thinktank linked with Iain Duncan Smith – are to publish a joint strategy on how to get children out of poverty.

As Guardian reporter Andrew Wintour notes, accurately enough: “The joint initiative suggests the differences between the two parties are much smaller than they pretend.”
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Another Tory poll lead

The latest monthly ComRes survey for The Independent, published today, will show that the Tories have doubled their lead since last month from seven to 14 points.

Littlejohn endorses Boris

Richard Littlejohn, that paragon of enlightened thinking, wants his readers to vote Boris. Almost as bad as a BNP endorsement? Via SB.

Clegg hails Libdem polls

The Liberal Democrats are better placed at this point in the electoral cycle than at any time in their history, the party leader, Nick Clegg, claimed today.

Boris failing women, says group

The candidates for Mayor of London have outlined their policies on gender violence to End Violence Against Women (EVAW). But they say Boris Johnson is out of line with national party policy. Press release follows. continue reading… »

The top ten Boris videos

I’ve never seen so many videos against a candidate for a British election. If there’s one thing the Mayor elections has shown, its that there are plenty of creative Boris-stoppers out there.

Of course I couldn’t limit this list only to ten. If there’s any important ones you think I’ve missed out, let us know in the comments. This list also includes the Kate Nash ‘dickhead remix’ that was taken off YouTube!
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Index debates Kollerstrom

Unity from LC and Brendan O’Neill from Spiked debate whether it was right that Dr Nicholas Kollerstrom be stripped of his honorary post at UCL after bloggers uncovered his views.

Peter the Prophet

Ah, those Hitchens boys and their messianic resolve. This time, it’s the runt of the family:

I sometimes wonder why I bother being a prophet. All my predictions of horrible things come true, and nobody does anything about any of them.

The BBC have discovered that there are now quite a lot of grannies in this country in their 30s. They interviewed Tara Bailee, 36, who goes clubbing twice a month, has (of course) split up with the father of her daughter Rickeita, who got pregnant at 15 and has (of course) split up with the father of her daughter, Lexie.

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War nerds and Green Mayors

Welcome to Casting the net, Liberal Conspiracy’s daily web review. As always, please feel free to share your own recommendations in the comments.

Bruce Anderson – Brown may be taking a battering, but Cameron’s still got some convincing to do.
Blood & Treasure – Jamie K interviews “War Nerd”.
The Daily (Maybe) – Making the case for Sian Berry as London Mayor: the leftist choice.
Bishop Hill – Why on earth do so-called Liberals back the European Union? Do they even remember anymore?
Clairwil – Is not convinced that CCTV monitoring will do much to improve her locale.
Paul Krugman – Beware the media’s accepted wisdom: on tax, Bush and McCain are two peas from the same pod.
Sunny Hundal – Our Ed just can’t get his head around why the media is suggesting Obama’s in trouble?