When you start writing round up blogs about the weekly contest in the House of Commons, known as Prime Ministers Questions, you expect to be writing about a variety of topics from defence to transport policy. Unfortunately PMQs has been dominated by the health reforms for yet another week, leaving little in the way of [...]
The title is the start of a very cringe worthy joke you would hear from a grandparent. The punchline, pull yourself together then, could be some thing that could be uttered to both the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition. Prime Ministers Questions this week was always going to be dominated by the [...]
Last week I compared Prime Ministers Questions to a Shakespearean play. In true political style I have decided to ignore my previous statement and come up with an entirely new position. The House of Commons is a classroom and the speaker of the house, John Bercow, is the teacher controlling it and he’s rather good [...]
Labour leaders throughout history have always been plagued with the problem of what to do with the unions. The Labour party was founded at the start of the twentieth century as the political arm of the unions, but since then its relations with the union movement could be described as turbulent at best. The unions [...]
Ed Miliband set out some new policy proposals in his speech on Tuesday, but he still gives an overall impression of being vague and unclear in his beliefs. One major reason for this is that he has not taken up clear positions on some of the crucial issues of the moment. For example, unlike some [...]
After watching this week’s Prime Ministers Questions I have noticed something Shakespearean about the whole affair, which occurs every Wednesday at 12:00 in the Palace of Westminster. First of all is the staging of PMQs; the audience is passive in the process as those who represent the public conceive and ask the questions they feel [...]
What would you do for a salary of 66k? For most young people it’s a salary they can only dream about. Six jobs promising this salary have just been advertised on the Labour party website. The six posts are for executive directors covering every facet of the party, an attempt at a complete revolution in [...]
In a recent interview with Channel 4 News, Ed Miliband refused to endorse the public sector strike action which is due to take place on 30 November, but he also refused to condemn it. The Labour Party still receives much of its funding from the trade union movement, and Miliband was only able to become [...]
It has today been announced that the Hinchingbrooke Health Care NHS Trust in Cambridgeshire is to be taken over by the Circle Healthcare Corporation, a private for-profit company listed on the stock market, as part of a £1bn 10 year contract. Circle Trust will become the first ever non-state provider to deliver a full range of [...]
Catch21 went to meet Kate Green MP for Stretford & Urmston to ask her “Do you think the vote should be given to people at 16?” Kate is a great believer in giving the vote to people at 16 but believes the only way decision makers will listen is to get 100K+ votes on an [...]
By now we’ve all heard about the workfare scandal: as part of a reform of jobless benefits, tens of thousands of job seekers have been forced to work for organisations (non- and for-profit) for free or lose their Job Seekers Allowance. The backlash has been intense, to put it mildly. While the scheme does have [...]
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