Parliament

by Chris | 10 May 2010 | No Comments

One of the Lib Dem grassroots big demands as part of any coalition or confidence and supply agreement is a referendum on changing the electoral …

by Chris | 30 Mar 2010 | No Comments

I have to say that I feared the new expenses rules would be poorly thought-out and overly-puritanical, to the extent that it would be worse …

by Chris | 23 Feb 2010 | No Comments

Currently, Parliament does not meet for a long enough period of the year. Far too much of its time is spent with MPs effectively being …

by Chris | 11 Feb 2010 | One Comment

The annual cost of the new parliamentary body to be set up to monitor MPs expenses – the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) – is …

by Chris | 8 Feb 2010 | 2 Comments

A hung parliament is, if we take the recent poll results as gospel, on the cards. The Conservatives need a national poll lead of 11 …

by Chris | 6 Feb 2010 | No Comments

This is how David Cameron wants to do it:

I’ll be writing some commentary on this tomorrow.

by Chris | 6 Feb 2010 | One Comment

As if it isn’t bad enough that they defraud the taxpayer through their expense claims to such an extent that the CPS has felt necessary …

by Chris | 5 Feb 2010 | No Comments

It sounds rather like a middle-class sex position, doesn’t it? But if you ignore that (and get that image out of your head – that …

by Chris | 27 Jan 2010 | No Comments

Oh the irony:

MPs’ select committees must be streamlined to make them more effective at scrutinising government business, a report says.
Some have up to 14 members, …

by Chris | 25 Jan 2010 | No Comments

“Sir Robin” MPs – Labour and Lib Dem MPs in a Tory target seat who have decided to stand down rather than contest the next …