There appears to be a small nugget of truth to this story, but it has been exaggerated. One does not build a hospital overnight (at least I hope one doesn’t), so the 2005 General Election figures are irrelevant to the number of hospitals built over the last decade. Compared to the 1997 results, the picture… Continue reading Labour’s hospital grab is somewhat overstated
Month: April 2007
Crowns of Thorns
Geoffrey Wheatcroft’s article yesterday about what to do about a problem like Scotland, got Lib Dem bloggers in a lather for wrongly accrediting the West Dunfermline By-election victory to the SNP, but what they should have noticed is that the rest of the article is even more nonsense. His proposed ‘solution’ is a Union of… Continue reading Crowns of Thorns
Why London gives parties nightmayors
The difficulties that both the Lib Dems and Tories are experiencing in finding suitable candidates for London Mayor is clearly unfortunate, but not entirely unpredictable. Labour of course had its own problem back in 2000, eventually opting for the laughable Frank Dobson (ruining his career in the process) who was trounced by the then-independent Ken… Continue reading Why London gives parties nightmayors