Afternoon pop pickers…

Someone from Blackburn Labour told me that all right-thinking bloggers were ignoring the silly Total Politics poll, so I didn’t vote.
Then all the other bloggers and Tweeters started listing the blogs they were voting for (ignoring Iain Dale’s instructions that we are not supposed to do this), and Tom Harris put Blackburn Labour at the [...]

Is my fever spiking, or is this utterly absurd?

The Department for Communities and Local Government came in for criticism yesterday from the communities and local government committee, who said the DCLG had only taken ‘the first steps’ towards a reasonable performance, and that their eco-town programme was ‘clearly in some difficulty’. Well, fair enough. Must be a somewhat difficult department to run what [...]

Truth, Taxes, Tories and…Today’s reason to vote YES. (Alliteration FTW.)

Those of you who are friends with me on Facebook may have observed an amusing little back and forth between two councillors of my acquaintance (one York Labour, one Salford Tory), plus interested by-standers.  It has so far taken in the issues of: social justice and whether Tories care about it; evil; Jesus Christ; the Labour [...]

Observe the zen-like balance of the TIF referendum question.

I’m actually not being sarcastic. I couldn’t think of a less hyperbolic post title.
David Ottewell reported today yesterday on the question that will be on the ballot papers for the TIF referendum and it’s difficult to criticise – the preamble which will appear on the paper mentions both the congestion charge and the investment in public [...]