With any luck, any election is about issues more than it is about personalities as it’s the issues that really direct people’s interest and that connect with peoples’ lives. The Liberal Democrats Manifesto Nick Clegg has announced that the Lib Dem manifesto has, at its core, four steps to a fairer Britain but within its …
Monthly Archive: April 2010
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Apr 13 2010
Stop trying to give me power!
I am absolutely sick and tired of right-leaning politicians trying to shift responsibility down and away from themselves under the guise of “empowering the people”. Conservatives to unveil manifesto. I don’t want the power to appoint police chiefs, I don’t the power to run a school. Well, actually, I do and that’s part of the …
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Apr 12 2010
The world needs nuclear disarmament
President Obama knows it, even Dmitry Medvedev seems to be on board but Gordon Brown and David Cameron seem to think we’re still in the Cold War. Liberal Democrat Press Release Only the Liberal Democrats are committed to nuclear disarmament. Why is it that in 2010, there are some political leaders still up for a …
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Apr 09 2010
What does Cameron think of you?
This one’s mostly for the Twitter community who may get this from my feed but it’s just a gentle reminder that: David Cameron doesn’t like you That’s right, if you use Twitter, Cameron thinks you’re a twit, an idiot. He thinks there is something deeply wrong with you. Do you want to vote for a …
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Apr 09 2010
Christian = Left?
Really interesting piece from Revd Dr Canon Giles Fraser in this week’s Church Times Read Giles’ original article Dr Fraser’s assertion is that although the left has historically been the natural political position for Christians because of the concern for social justice and the poor, the modern leftism (and I think he means specifically the …
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Apr 08 2010
The only party to get it right on defence
The BBC have a really handy at-a-glance guide to where all the parties are on the big policy areas. I was looking at the summation of the three main parties’ positions on defence. Labour “… ended active UK military involvement in Iraq …”A quick reminder that it was of course Labour who took the country …
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Apr 07 2010
29 days to go
There are 29 days until the election. I’ll do my best to keep blogging thoughts as we approach the big day. Today there’s been a discussion on BBC Radio 5 Live about not voting. I believe that since we have a democratic right to vote that that right is balanced by the responsibility to use …
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Apr 06 2010
A Biblical approach to voting
The date of the General Election has finally been confirmed as 6 May this morning as Gordon Brown met the Queen to request a dissolution of Parliament. This morning’s set and recommended Psalm for Morning Prayer in the Lectionary was Psalm 112 and I found myself particularly struck, in light of this morning’s news, by …
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Apr 05 2010
New-look Planet openSUSE
Pascal “Yaloki” Bleser, aka “The Man” has redesigned Planet openSUSE and it’s packed with awesome. So say with me, Who the man?
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