The Wilted Rose

Ordovicious has an interesting quote from the Grauniad showing the likely extent of the Labour losses.
This blog has been silent for the past few days due to intense election activity, with more to come in the next 2 days.
The next post should be some time on Friday.  Until then, with Labour trailing by between 14 - [...]

Now we hear that Alan Johnson has to pay back £1,675 that he took from a donor who was not even on the electoral register.  A simple check at the time would have showed this to be the case.
On the run up to local elections, with 26% in the polls, the last thing Labour needs is [...]

What has it come to when a lifelong Labour voter tells a canvasser in a tough council estate in the West Midlands:
I’m never voting Labour again after what they’ve done.  I’m not so keen on your party, but I hate Gordon Brown and what he’s done to Labour with the 10p tax rate and the [...]

See Harriet Harman’s website for an announcement of her defection. Hat tip to Guido for this info. I see her Wikipedia entry has been updated already …
Harriet Harman Resignation from the Labour Party: Letter to David Cameron and statement to Press
Letter to David Cameron
Rt. Hon.Gordon Brown M.P.
Leader of the Labour Party/Prime Miniser
House of Commons
London
SWIA OAA
25 [...]

According to YouGov in the Telegraph, the Conservatives are on 44%, Labour on 26% and Lib Dems on 17%.
That means that two things:
The Conservatives have an 18 point lead over Labour.
Labour has only 8 points between them and the Lib Dems.
And it effectively means that Labour are in for a very hard time in next [...]

Is it any wonder that Red Ken says he’s independent?
Then why doesn’t he just run as an independent?  He might stand better chance of winning.
But then he would have to work, rather than having the massive London Labour machine (what’s left of it) campaigning on his behalf - like the poor young bloke who was [...]

We should have a new song for Gordon, based on “it’s my party” - “It’s My U Turn and I’ll Try if I want to”.
Margaret Thatcher famously said, “U turn if u want to; the lady’s not for turning.” That got the wets sulking.
Today, there has apparently been a partial u-turn on the abolition of [...]

This blogger has made no secret of his support for Boris in the London Mayoral election.
I am currently in London for a few days on business, staying near Piccadilly, and was out last night in Chinatown for a meal.  The vibrancy of the centre of London is remarkable and is a phenomenon rarely seen elsewhere [...]

Brown said last night on the news that 3.2m families are better off since 1997.  Just who does he think he is kidding?
How can families or other people be better off when they are threatened by negative equity, can’t get a foothold on the housing ladder, are faced with rising food, gas, electricity (and everything [...]

Blogging will be light for the next few weeks as I will be away on business and helping in local elections in the West Midlands.  If I can get a mobile broadband modem sorted out, I might be able to access the blog a bit more often.
Charles Clarke,  who famously referred to Brown as having [...]