It’s a sad day when you don’t even need to look up the actual figures to realise the media and political classes are talking utter balls on crime. An 8% increase in robberies? No an 8% increase in recorded robberies. To give this some perspective, one other statistic hidden in the Guardian coverage today was… Continue reading Criminal Nonsense
Month: July 2006
A Taxing Question: Do Lib Dems want the Youth Vote?
A poll by the Hansard Society to coincide with the local elections in May had the Liberal Democrats winning the Youth Vote: 30% of 100,000 pupils in over 200 schools voted Lib Dem, with Labour and Greens tying on 25% and the Tories on 15%. National policies such as free tuition fees and opposition to… Continue reading A Taxing Question: Do Lib Dems want the Youth Vote?
Getting off the treadmill
Rob Fenwick asks “is Ming Campbell the Liberal Democrats’ IDS?” Well, based on his performance on Newsnight this evening, the answer to that is most certainly not, and asking the question is to miss the real problem. IDS was a no-mark that the Tories elected in an act of self-immolation. Ming was a respected and… Continue reading Getting off the treadmill