Highly entertaining explanation of AV, even with the anti-tory (sorry, anti-dog) sentiment!
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BBC News – Bremner’s Best of 2010, posted with vodpod
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A couple of recent videos from Bremner, Bird and Fortune (The Last Show Before the Recovery) and The Daily Show, both hilarious. But what does it say about politics in this country when our Prime Minister is ridiculed and derided mercilessly both at home and abroad, and how much longer can he go on like this?
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Politics may currently be at low ebb in the UK but I take my democratic responsibilities very seriously so will still be voting in the local and Euro elections next week. But who should you vote for and why?
Visit www.votematch.com where you answer a series of questions about your stance on a range of issues. You are then presented with the party which most closely matches your views.
The results of my test can be seen above. They clearly showed Libertas as the party that is closest to my political views. I’d already decided to support Libertas for the Euro elections so this was quite reassuring. but who are they and what do they propose?
Libertas are a new pan-european party who want root-and-branch reform of the European Union to make it more democratic and representative of its citizens. They oppose the Lisbon treaty and want repatriation of some powers to national parliaments. S if you’re pro-european but are disappointed with the major parties and want to stay in Europe, but a reformed Europe I suggest you consider Libertas for your vote on Thursday.
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Surprise, surprise the government is reneging on the promise that student loans wouldn’t increase in real terms. The government’s official rate of inflation is now negative, so post-1998 loans should now be decreasing according to the original student loan rules, but guess what …. they’ve found a loop-hole which means loan rates wont go lower.
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“The introduction of student loans reduced the burden of education on the state and allowed individuals far greater financial autonomy. However student loans are still subsidised by taxpayer to the tune of £1.2 billion a year (in addition to the tuition subsidy). There is no need for this support to continue – there is already a strong incentive for people to study, an earning premium of 77% over non-graduates.” ConservativeHome
I think this is an appalling suggestion. Without subsidized student loans the financial burden that would have been imposed by a commercial loan would have been enough to prevent me from going to university. Even under current terms the amount of debt I’ll graduate with is considerable and will hinder my ability to invest in a house or business for years to come. As for the assertion that 77% of graduates have higher earnings I would like to see the data to substantiate this claim. For select number of vocational courses (such as mine) this may be true, but there are many other courses which have straddled students with massive debts for no benefit or improved job opportunities.
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Sooner or later political leaders are trapped by their own pasts. Gordon Brown is caught in a stylistic trap, a manacled constraint that served him well long ago but threatens to be a fatal incarceration now.On the BBC’s Today programme yesterday Brown was asked whether he enjoyed being Prime Minister. He could not answer this simplest of questions. Instead he spoke awkwardly of the daily challenges in the job and the dutiful inspiration of his father, obtuse responses and ones that are so familiar they are already tediously formulaic.The Prime Minister was equally over-rehearsed when reflecting on the tough decisions he would take in relation to what he repeated too many times were the long-term challenges. A listener could almost hear the agonised calculations: “I must not say I am enjoying the job as that would sound frivolous … I must get across the idea that I am meeting the long-term challenges and imply that Cameron is incapable of doing so.”Why can’t Brown answer questions in an engaging way? It is one of the easiest of the political arts and yet he treats some interviews as if they were the equivalent of swimming the Channel after a 26-mile run, nightmarishly arduous and demanding a range of contortions.
Steve Richards: Unless Brown breaks free from the shackles of his past, he will never engage with voters – Independent Online Edition > New Articles
I had just the same thoughts when I heard a snippet of Brown’s interview on Sunday morning TV. His answers are so labored and rehearsed it’s unbelievable. It’s as though he’s been told to include several sound-bites or phrases as many times as possible (to reinforce them in the the public consciousness the PR gurus no doubt tell him) and then just regurgitates them as they pop into his head, regardless of whether they answer the question or even produce I coherent sentence. Considering the year’s of practice it’s a disappointing performance and doesn’t show any signs of improving.
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