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THURSDAY 13th MAY

by Sunny Hundal
April 30, 2010 at 3:37 am

THURSDAY 13th MAY

LC Westminster: UKIP tops chart in lost deposits at election; nearly quarter million

David Osler V Johanne Kaschke judgement today
Trial summary; Pictures; video with Dave

Lc Westminster: Watch: satire of new Tory-Libdem coalition and their previous remarks

Alex Smith: Has David Miliband made two early strategic errors?

Nafeez Ahmed: The “new politics” of Cameron and Clegg, and our responsibility

Sugar the pill: This is what “new politics” looks like?

5 Comments ¦ 30th April

Thursday 29th April

by Sunny Hundal
April 29, 2010 at 10:49 am

THURSDAY 29th APRIL

Join us at 8pm for the live debate along with the New Statesman, LabourList and Left Foot Forward.

LC Media: Poll: only a minority of public bothered by #bigotgate

LC Westminster: Watch: MP resigns and urges people not to vote Libdem (satire)

Political Scrapbook: Conservative candidate posted racist slur on blog

Sunder Katwala: Surely unfair BNP repatriation policy would fuel white grievance politics

Angry Mob: A Talk About Immigration

Cath Elliott: We still need the unions

Anthony Barnett: Guardian letter in support of Lib Dems – why I signed

2 Comments ¦ 29th April

Wednesday 28th April

by Sunny Hundal
April 28, 2010 at 5:46 am

WEDNESDAY 28th APRIL

Sugar the Pill: Why I will not be voting Conservative – a manifesto analysis

Shuggy: Tribalism: Labour’s besetting sin?

Sunder Katwala: 11.6 million people excluded from Tory tax break because husband & wife work

Angry Mob: Your Local Candidates: who are they?

Claude Carpentieri: Clegg’s great-great-aunt was a spy!

BenSix: The Progs And The Clogs

The Staggers: David Cameron pops up on BNP video

Greek instability threatens Germany
Growing opposition from the German public to a planned bailout of Greece is jeopardising Angela Merkel’s chances in a key state election next week and could ultimately undermine the stability of her coalition government.

Nick Clegg – I want to be Prime Minister
Liberal Democrat leader tells The Times he can supplant Labour and has stated that his ambition is to lead Britain…

2 Comments ¦ 28th April

Tuesday 27th April

by Sunny Hundal
April 27, 2010 at 6:38 am

TUESDAY 27th APRIL

9:30pm LC Westminster: Labour unveils new attack ad against Tories

8:30pm: YouGov tonight: Cons 33%, Labour 29%, LDds 28%

Populus / Times poll: Cons 36%, Libdems 28%, Labour 27%

LC Media: Even Sun’s page 3 girl Becky is “concerned” about electoral reform

3:20pm: Tory candidate Philip Lardner has been suspended for making ‘offensive’ comments on homosexuality. See Shamik Das.
- Also praised Enoch Powell.

Sunder Katwala: Fact-checking Cameron’s first-past-the-post mythology

Afua Hirsch: If Britain is really post-racial, why is the election so white?

LC Westminster: Watch – angry Libdem voters heckles Cameron at rally

Stuart Weir: Lib Dems must hold firm on the need for PR

Philippa Willitts: Silence Does Not Equal Consent

Raincoat Optimism: The Fallacy of Sharia Law

Tory support keeps falling
Conservative support is at the same level as the party achieved in the 2005 general election and would leave the party far off a majority. That will add to anxiety within the Tory campaign.

Police publish Blair Peach report
A previously secret police report into the death of a protester in London 31 years ago is set to be released.

2 Comments ¦ 27th April

Monday 26th April

by Sunny Hundal
April 26, 2010 at 6:54 am

MONDAY 26th APRIL

The Staggers blog: today’s poll numbers

LC Westminster: Majority of Libdems would be “dismayed” with a Lib-Con pact

LC Media: Jan Moir wages class-war on Clegg family as Daily Mail removes articles

George Eaton: The Tories’ “decapitation” strategy is likely to backfire

Michael Meacher MP: Lies, damned lies and environmental fibs

Sunder Katwala: Now, even Murdoch fears that Murdoch is going over the top

Paul Cotterill: Jeremy Hunt eviscerated in 5 Live Interview

Left Outside: Why conservatives should care about immigration

Sim-o: on hung parliaments

Hain questions LibDem-Con alliance
Senior Labour figures yesterday warned Nick Clegg not to overreach himself by trying to dictate to Labour whether Gordon Brown could remain as party leader in a hung parliament…

Pope memo will not affect UK visit
UK newspaper reports have quoted Vatican sources as saying the September visit could now be in doubt. But Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said: “For us the case is closed.”

1 Comment ¦ 26th April

Sunday 25th April

by Sunny Hundal
April 25, 2010 at 3:52 am

SUNDAY 25th APRIL

YouGov: Cons 34% (-1), Libdem 30% (+2%), Labour 28% (+1)

PeeZedTee: Why progressives should vote LibDem even if they hate the LibDems

John B: A working class hero is nothing to pretend to be

Claude Carpentieri: UK election in the European press

Putney debater: Election Videos – are they making a difference?

Climate Sock: The Greens’ election battlegrounds

John Crace: You can’t beat the (voting) system

Anton Vowl: Hope v fear

Reuben: Labour’s AV system is a recipe for permanent inertia

Mark Pack: Telegraph misrepresents financial data during Hung Parliament

Harpymarx: NL aint been punished enough over Iraq

Splintered Sunrise: How discrimination works

1 Comment ¦ 25th April

Saturday 24th April

by Sunny Hundal
April 24, 2010 at 4:34 pm

SATURDAY 24th APRIL

Tomorrow’s polls
Mail on Sunday / BPIX: Con 34%, Libdems 30%, Lab 27%.

Indy on Sunday & Sunday Mirror / ComRes poll: Con 34%, Libdem 29%, Lab 28%

Sunday Telegraph / ICM poll: Con 35%, Libdem 31%, Labour 26%

News of the World / Ipsos MORI: Con 36%, Lab 30%, LibDem 23% (rogue poll?)

Sunday Times / YouGov: Con 35%, Lab 27% Libdems 29%

Commentary
Sunny Hundal: Two reasons why the Libdem vote may not hold up

Will Straw: Is Britain heading for a progressive majority?

Mehdi Hasan: Is Compass about to call for tactical voting?

Alan Travis: Back-door immigration amnesty has been in place for 20 years

Ian Burrell: Someone tell the press that rules of the game have changed

Sunder Katwala: Dacre keeps up class war on Clegg

16 Comments ¦ 24th April

Friday 23rd April

by Sunny Hundal
April 23, 2010 at 7:14 am

FRIDAY 23rd APRIL

LC Westminster: Watch: The spoof leaders’ wives!

Media attacks on Nick Clegg put pressure on Conservatives

Claude Carpentieri: Why the right-wing smear machine will backfire

Sunder Katwala: Now its Class War on hypocrisy fom ConservativeHome too

LC Westminster: Nick Robinson confirms CCHQ’s newspaper smear operation

LC Media: It’s here: #NickCleggsfault – the song

The Staggers: What Cameron and Brown have taken from the far-right

Anthony Barnett: Clegg holds his ground: who will have to ‘Get Real’ now?

Left Outside: Defending immigration – population density

Giles Wilkes: Speculators bring down Greece. Really?

The forces that have been blocking British democracy are becoming visible in this election
To understand what these forces are, you have to start with a fact that is usually kept obscure: Britain is a country with a large liberal-left majority.

3 Comments ¦ 23rd April

Thursday 22nd April

by Sunny Hundal
April 22, 2010 at 10:03 am

THURSDAY 22nd APRIL

Join us at 8pm for the Leaders Debates live-chat!

YouGov tonight: Conservative 34%, Labour 29%, Libdems 28%

Dave Osler: Trial (strike-out application) hearing tomorrow

Women Labour helpers knocked to ground by Tories. Was it libcon troll Martin Coxall?

James Macintyre: Sun removes all mention of Clegg from front-page

Justin McKeating: How #nickcleggsfault originated

Michael Wolff: Will Murdoch Lose Britain?

LC Media: Is Sky News campaigning for someone?

Stuart White: Can Labour stay in the government if it comes third?

Tom Rafferty: Cameron’s foreign policy ignorance damaging to Britain’s interests

Anton Vowl: I’d rather eat a dog turd covered in Marmite than vote BNP

Daily Mail-o-matic goes all Nick Clegg crazy

Hope Not Hate: Nick Griffin – a horse ban?

Tories lose ground to appeal of ‘safer’ hung Parliament
Voters see a hung Parliament as more radical and less dangerous than a complete switch of governing ideology. Poll indicates that those attracted to Nick Clegg believe that he offers a less risky version of change than that on offer from the Conservatives.

4 Comments ¦ 22nd April

Wednesday 21st April

by Sunny Hundal
April 21, 2010 at 6:53 am

WEDNESDAY 21st APRIL

YouGov at 10pm: Conservative 33%; Liberal Democrat 31%; Labour 27%; Others 9%

Ipsos Mori: Libdem jump represents highest score we’ve recorded since it formed.

Watch: Cameron gets egged

Paul Waugh: Osborne’s bad hair day

Evening Standard: Labour and Libdems surge in London!

LC Westminster: Want to know Clegg’s Achilles heel? Here it is

LC Media: Guess the newspaper editor most annoyed with Libdem surge?

LC Westminster: Watch: Do people really have a clue about politics?

Sunder Katwala: Let everyone watch the debate! 10 reasons to #showitlivebbc

LC Media: Support blogger Dave Osler at libel courts on Friday

Indymedia: Save Bita Ghaedi from Deportation!

Nicola Smith: Dole queues today nearly half the size of the 80s and 90s

1 Comment ¦ 21st April

Tuesday 20th April

by Sunny Hundal
April 20, 2010 at 6:58 am

TUESDAY 20th APRIL

7:20pm: Times/ComRes poll – Clegg’s support jumps 10pts in one week

2:20pm: YouGov: 34% think Libdem support will last; 52% sceptical,

Sunny Hundal: Labour must prepare to boot Brown

Left Foot Forward: David Clegg-eron, change you can’t believe in

Giles Wilkes: Desperately searching for Panic

Anthony Barnett: Trying to destroy the Lib Dems

Anton Vowl: We haven’t got a fucking clue, admit pollsters

AVPS: The Far Left and the 2010 UK General Election

The Staggers: Election 2010: Party promises

Brown refuses to rule out Lib-Lab pact
Asked if there would be a coalition government, he said: “There is common ground between Liberal Democrats and us … but it’s for the people to decide.”

Lib Dem voters: No deal with Cameron
The ComRes poll for The Independent and ITV News shows that 46 per cent of Liberal Democrat supporters would be happy if the election resulted in a hung parliament and Mr Brown remained in Downing Street; it found 31 per cent would be happy if Mr Cameron became prime minister in these circumstances.

2 Comments ¦ 20th April

Monday 19th April

by Sunny Hundal
April 19, 2010 at 7:46 am

MONDAY 19th APRIL

8:20pm: YouGov/Sun Con 33% (+ 1), Lib Dems 31% (-2), Lab 27% (+ 1)

Opinium/Express poll tonight: Con 32% (-7), Lib Dems 29% (+12), Lab 26% (-1)

6:30pm: A ComRes poll tonight is expected to project Labour as the largest party. Con: 32%, Lab: 28%: Lib 28%. Lab with 279 seats / Tories 245.

5:17pm: Report on ‘mystery poll’ on Libdem policy. YouGov deny wrongdoing

LC Westminster: Cameron’s new election plea: please vote for me you bastards!

Political Betting: PB/Angus Reid has the Lib Dems up 10pts

LC Westminster: Boris doesn’t like Clegg’s rise; suggests “dissolving electorate”

3:30pm Guardian: Libdems jump 10pt in latest ICM poll

Sunder Katwala: So, does ANYBODY count as truly British, Mr Dacre?

Adam Ramsay: Memorandum to Cameron, in advance of the debate on foreign policy

Owen Tudor: Former J.P.Morgan Managing Director backs financial transactions tax

Catherine Redfern: “We Need the Women Back at Work”

Harpymarx: Medicated kids

1 Comment ¦ 19th April

Sunday 18th April

by Sunny Hundal
April 18, 2010 at 12:45 pm

SUNDAY 18th APRIL

Clegg in the news
Labour and Tories terrified Clegg will play Iraq card

Clegg Seen As ‘Change’ Candidate, Not Cameron

The Fightback Begins: knives come out

Other blogs
Harpxymarx: Just how people are stopped under Section 44?

Left Foot Forward: Hanging on in a Hung Parliament

Anthony Barnett at oK: How to lose an election

The Staggers: Let’s play David Cameron’s “Last week I met…”

2 Comments ¦ 18th April

Saturday 17th April

by Sunny Hundal
April 17, 2010 at 8:20 am

SATURDAY 17th APRIL

1:45pm LC Westminster: Cameron’s “black man” doesn’t even back Tory immigration policy!

Sadie’s Tavern: The law of unintended consequences

Bob Piper: Where’s David Davis (for freedom) when you really need him?

LC Westminster: Libdems claim 60,000 new members after debate

Paul Sagar: The Double Demon Maneouvre

Tim Ireland: David Cameron’s head on a stick

Tories want Cameron to attack Clegg
The inquest among some Tories focused on the three-party format. “We should never have allowed Clegg to have an equal footing. That was a big mistake,” said one party insider.

Ash cloud costing airlines £130m a day
BA shares fell by more than 3% today. Other European airlines shares also fell, reflecting the fact that the volcanic ash cloud has disrupted flights across Europe.

Domestic terrorists as big a threat as al-Qaeda
Fifteen years after the Oklahoma City bombing, the spectre of domestic terrorism has returned to haunt the Obama Administration, with a warning from the FBI that “home-grown and lone-wolf extremists” now represent as serious a threat as al-Qaeda.

2 Comments ¦ 17th April

Friday 16th April

by Sunny Hundal
April 16, 2010 at 7:03 am

FRIDAY 16th APRIL

LC Westminster: Cameron wanted a taxpayer-funded Lexus for himself but now criticises police for it

Sunder Katwala: Hull and Met police challenge Cameron claims as misleading

Claude Carpentieri: Obama: equal hospital visitation rights for same-sex partners

Gary Dunion: EXCLUSIVE: Labour’s new ad

LC Media: ITV blocks unofficial #leadersdebates footage on YouTube!

LC Media: Sky News makes polling mistakes after #leadersdebates

New Statesman Staggers blog: Clegg ahead in first post-debate polls

The non-televised debate

via Hang ‘em

Clegg smashes through two-party system
The Liberal Democrat leader seized the moment by matching Gordon Brown and David Cameron blow for blow during 90 minutes of lively exchanges which confounded expectations that the 76 strict rules of engagement would produce a sterile discussion.

Obama vows renewed space program
“Step by step, we will push the boundaries not only of where we can go but what we can do,” Mr. Obama said. “Our goal is the capacity for people to work and learn, operate and live safely beyond the Earth for extended periods of time.”

3 Comments ¦ 16th April

Thursday 15th April

by Sunny Hundal
April 15, 2010 at 5:03 am

THURSDAY 15th APRIL

Across blogs
LC Media: ITV blocks unofficial #leadersdebates footage on YouTube!

LC Media: Sky News makes polling mistakes after #leadersdebates

Paul Sagar: On a Liberal’s Blind Spot

Sunder Katwala on Next Left: Cameron’s super-soundbite strategy

LC Westminster: Car Crash TV – Devil’s Kitchen gets ambushed on BBC

Katie Ghose on oK: Where do the parties stand on the Human Rights Act?

Claude Carpentiere: France condemns Vatican for anti-gay slur

Giles Wilkes on Guardian: For sound economics, vote Lib Dem

LC Westminster: Election sexism watch, pt 5

In the news
Ninety min that could change Britain
A ComRes survey for The Independent and ITV News found that 65 per cent of the adult public say they will watch the three debates – about 30 million people. Half of them say the contests could influence how they vote on 6 May.

NUS elects president who opposes fees
A staunch opponent of higher university tuition fees was voted president of the National Union of Students today, setting the next government on a likely collision course with students.

NYT: Poll finds Tea Partyers confused
Some defended being on Social Security while fighting big government by saying that since they had paid into the system, they deserved the benefits. Others could not explain the contradiction.

1 Comment ¦ 15th April

14th April 2010 – updates

by Sunny Hundal
April 14, 2010 at 1:55 am

WEDNESDAY 14th APRIL

Elsewhere
Ed Wallis at Next Left: Why Cameron is heir to Alastair Campbell
Mark Pack at LDV: Buckingham Palace, the Bank of England and a donation to Tories
New Statesman, Mehdi Hasan: The myth of the “big society”
Adam Bienkov at Tory Troll: Tories “in it together” with underage drink sales

Across Liberal Conspiracy

2:35pm: Westminster: Election sexism watch

2pm update: Nick Clegg launches manifesto

Westminster: Tories wrong on lobbyists register
Westminster: – ‘Where are your spending cuts?’ asks right-wing think of the Conservative party
Westminster: Charles Kennedy joins Libdem electoral reform group
Media: Tory PPC challenges anti-BBC stance

In the news today
Tory claim on NI job losses under fire
Research done by George Osborne’s main economic adviser has thrown into question the Conservatives’ claims that Labour rises in National Insurance contributions would destroy upwards of 57,000 jobs.

50 heads attack Conservative education plans
A group of 51 headteachers, including prominent academy leaders, today attacked the Tories’ plans to give parents the freedom to set up schools and said they feared “across-the-board cuts” to schooling under the Conservatives.

Lib Dems offer tax bait to voters
Mr Cable made the remark as he helped his party leader, Nick Clegg, launch the Lib Dem manifesto, a document that Mr Clegg said would help “hardwire fairness” into British society – and which has a £16.8 billion tax cut for low and modest earners at its centre.

JP Morgan smashes expectations with $3.3bn profit
As well as beating the $2.14bn profit recorded in the same period a year ago, today’s earnings also exceeded the $3.28bn profit racked up in the last three months of 2009.

1 Comment ¦ 14th April