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Tories lose Poll lead after Budget!

By scrubber | Published: March 26, 2010
After what was, at best, a non-budget, albeit hammering Middle England yet again, Labour has finally gone ahead in the Polls. Well, one poll; today’s poll for BBC2’s Daily Politics show by COMRES Naturally, even though this wasn’t a poll of voting intentions in the election, this is being trumpeted all over the left-wing press such [...]
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Tories “crowd source” for a Budget response.

By scrubber | Published: March 25, 2010
In what is, frankly, a great move (prompted by DizzyThinks), the Tories have decided to tap into the power of the ‘Net to pick apart Alastair Darling’s Party Political Broadcast Budget yesterday. For the full explanation on what crowd sourcing is, see wikipedia, but briefly, it’s tapping into the huge number of people on the [...]
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Election battle lines drawn up over the economy?

By DiamondGeezer | Published: February 3, 2010
In the old days, when Tories were Tories, and Labour were Labour, it was quite easy to predict how the battle lines would be drawn up for a mid-recession election. Tories would be in favour of cutting the state, cutting spending, and lowering taxes to promote growth. Labour would raise taxes to pay [...]
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Gordon Brown’s “aspirational” laptops hit ebay

By scrubber | Published: January 15, 2010
Oh joy! This one is top. Ebay has a cracking listing which, I suspect, won’t last long. Just in case, I’ve grabbed a screenshot for your delectation. Wikio Wikio
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Bob Ainsworth blunders again with MoD budget…

By Jackal | Published: December 16, 2009
The Government has announced that in continued support to our boys in Afghanistan they will purchase 22 new Chinook transport helicopters. Excellent, I hear you say? Well, actually no – as usual with Liebour there is a big BUT around the corner! In an unbelievable set of circumstances, Bob Ainsworth, the Defence Secretary, has announced that [...]
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