The BNP have changed their constitution to allow “non-indigenous Britons” to join, but now it is being claimed that their new rules “indirectly” discriminate against black and Asian people:

[P]rospective members had to sign up to principles including a duty to oppose the promotion of any form of “integration or assimilation” that impacted on the “indigenous British”, and a requirement to support the “maintenance and existence of the unity and integrity of the indigenous British”.

So what precisely are the BNP doing? Oh, yes, asking their members to sign up to their …

Over the past decade, support for an English Parliament has grown, from 18% to 29% – and 40% believe that the current “Barnett forumla” system is unfair.
The way devolution has been set up to work currently is untenable. There is a massive democratic deficit as Scotland and Wales both have:

Their own Parliament or Assembly with various law-making powers

More MPs than their population justifies

Scotland and Wales benefit massively from the Barnett formula, gaining £1-1.5k extra per person every year – all paid for by English taxes!

There is no denying that the …

He shouldn’t be. I don’t think that non-doms should be allowed to sit in Parliament, in either Chamber. Hence my pleasure when Zac Goldsmith give it up. But the sheer hypocrisy of Labor over non-doms is astounding.
The Guardian has published the amounts received by Labour and the Conservatives from non-doms since 2001. Using some Excel formulas, the following stats emerge:

CONSERVATIVES
Lord Ashcroft personally donated £77,930
Bearwood Corporate Services donated £5,086,185.15
In cash: £1,626,365.69
Non-cash: £3,537,749.46
Conservative total: £5,164,115.15
LABOUR
Lakshmi Mittal donated £4,125,000
Sir Ronald Cohen donated £2,550,000
Caparo Industries PLC donated £45,000
Cash: £6,720,000
Labour total: £6,720,000

So Labour have received …

A ComRes poll shows that whatever happens at this years general election (whenever we get it), voters will be unhappy:

ComRes asked whether a particular result would make people feel happy or unhappy – and every option resulted in the “unhappies” winning.
The result that would spread the most gloom would be a hung parliament with Gordon Brown remaining as prime minister.
The results for this are:

Unhappy: 64%

Happy: 30%

The next worst option, on this measure, would be a hung parliament with David Cameron as prime minister.

Unhappy: 57%

Happy: 33%

Interestingly, the figures for a Labour …

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 “on holiday”. Of course, much of this “holiday” is nothing of the sort – the majority of MPs will be busy doing work in their constituency instead.
It does look really rather poor the amount of time they spend away from Parliament at the moment. They had a 24 day break for Christmas 2009 and currently take a 12-week summer break. 3 whole months! That’s a …

So many councillor leaflets are full of the “glum councillor” photos. Standing there and pointing at a pothole, a dirty road sign, litter, graffiti… you name it, they’ve been photographed looking glum next to it. Our local councillors need to cheer up!
But now there’s a site that collates these glum councillor images! Here’s a couple of the best ones:

An empty gritting box… after the snow has gone.

This one includes an MP – and the graffiti artist makes it clear what he thinks (look next to Nigel Griffith’s hand)…

It’s a schoolboy …

Sir Nicholas Winterton is a dinosaur. He is an out-of-touch, retiring MP. He is not representative of the Conservative Party when he says

If I was in standard class [on the train] I would not do work because people would be looking over your shoulder the entire time, there would be noise, there would be distraction….
They are a totally different type of people… There’s lots of children, there’s noise, there’s activity. I like to have peace and quiet when I’m travelling…
The people who are sitting in judgement of us not only …

Gordon Brown and David Cameron are the two people between whom the British public will choose to be Prime Minister for the next four to five years. Yet a third of students do not know who are they are.
That a number of students do not know who they are is unsurprising; that so many do not is quite shocking. Whilst students may not yet be paying much in the way of taxes and thus realise how important politics is, I would have thought that considering all the political argy-bargy over …

Why do political parties want to sign up celebrities? We may live in a world that obsessively follows the every thought and move of “celebrities”, the very-slightly-famous and the almost-famous-for-some-reason – but that’s no excuse for politicians to try and get in on the act.
The political parties should look back to the “Cool Britannia” era. Nothing made Blair look worse than his sucking-up to various celebrities, including those of dubious moral standing. Nothing damaged his credibility as a serious politican more than being seen entertaining celebrities and the close association …

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