What good is a majority if it lands you in a minefield? Conservative prime minister David Cameron finds himself in that predicament after last week’s elections handed him a very slim majority. He’s looking to slash about 12-billion quid from his country’s welfare budget. His “red meat” backbench are spoiling
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The Disaffected Lib: A Timely Scottish Warning for the New Democrats
There’s a price you pay for abandoning the Left. The latest party to learn that lesson is Scotland’s Labour Party. The “Blairification” of the Labour Party has sent a good part of Labour’s base in Scotland over to the SNP. Scottish Labour is suffering from a …to some extent self-inflicted
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