The Wilted Rose

See more regional analysis on Conservative Home, in particular the dramatic changes that have happened since the 2005 General Election.  There is also a Sun MORI Poll out today which gives Lab 41, Con 36, LD 16 - more evidence of the Brown Bounce deflating. 
A helpful comment from Forecast UK suggests that the Populus poll would result [...]

The Friday View
If you were shipwrecked on a desert island and had returned to the UK for the first time in many years, you would realise that you were in a country in despair.  The Labour Government is one of the most discredited, dishonest and malicious to have ever ruled.  And yet it has a [...]

Due to earlier problems with the change in the method used to calculate Unemployment Rates by the House of Commons Library, the following table represents the increase in unemployment in the city of Birmingham between October 2001 and July 2007.
The table shows that, across the city of Birmingham, a net total of 4,429 more people [...]

The earlier post with this title has been withdrawn due to changes in the way in which the unemployment rate is calculated by the House of Commons (see the helpful comment below).  A revised analysis will be posted in the next few days.
Unemployment is also hidden under Labour, as the Government encourages long-term unemployed people [...]

The example of Birmingham
The Labour Government has presided over a shameful increase in unemployment in our cities.  This has been well documented in the press, with London Boroughs having relatively high unemployment rates, despite London being the powerhouse of the UK economy and a global financial hub. 
On The Stirrer, Adrian Goldberg (who also has a column in the [...]

On his blog John Redwood gives some clear reasons why Brown’s poll rating is slipping and why Brown will not go for a snap poll. I agree with this analysis, and it does not bode well for the future of the Brown Government if it is entangled in so many messes already.  Elsewhere, Ellee Seymour wonders whether [...]

We are not surprised to learn - from a number of sources, including Noman Tahir and the Sunday Times (hat tip: Osama Saeed who has written a fascinating article on the subject) - that Labour is embroiled in a new sleaze scandal.  An alleged front organisation, Muslim Friends of Labour, apparently gave £300,000 to the Labour Party.  [...]

Absolutely agree with this post from Dylan-Jones Evans: Make St David’s Day a National Holiday.  Where I come from, St Patrick’s Day is, so why not St David’s Day?  Let’s see if the Labour Party in Wales has the guts to make St David’s Day a national holiday as it should be.
Posted by Mountjoy 5.55pm

10.57am update: On his blog John Redwood exposes Miliband’s porkies on Today: and brilliantly debunks Miliband’s claims that the Constitution is ‘good for Britain’, that the Treaty is different from the Constitution and that it ‘protects our red lines’.  As usual, these claims went unchallenged on Today - where is Paxman when we need him?
7.41am [...]

According to Tartan Hero.  What a shambles Labour in Scotland has become. 
Posted by Mountjoy 8.11am