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Amid the fuss this week as the coalition government announced that NHS direct would be scrapped and replaced with the cheaper NHS111, the Telegraph reported that for the second time in three years Jodrell bank is under threat of closure.
It’s not clear from their article whether that means their new visitor centre or any or [...]

From Facebook to the Streets: The Humble Spray Can Still Holds its Charm

The internet is a wonderful place to share ideas. It’s an even better place for sharing inane crap. Sometimes the two crash together to create something quite brilliant, like wikipedia and last month’s hilarious tory-advert meddling at Mydavidcameron.com. The net’s utterly anarchic structure, having something of Somalia’s law [...]

Memorandum to Mr David Cameron, leader of the Conservative Party, in advance of the Leaders Debate on foreign policy.

1) This time, please try not to risk war with a security council member.
1b) If you must ignore this advice, at least choose a small one. Gabon is a nice place to send our boys at this time of year. Or Uganda – they recently discovered oil there! But please don’t declare war on a [...]

Tories propose corporate tax break?

It wasn’t just Greens keeping a close eye on our spring conference. Tory candidate for Brighton Pavillion, Charlotte Vere, was regularly tweeting about the event.
This particular one caught my attention:
@carolinelucas @jasonkitcat How wld you pay 4 ur policies on scrapping VAT + NI:£130bn, green jobs £44bn + transport £10bn?so £184bn.No rush
so I replied:
@charlottev dunno bout [...]

Soft on crime, soft on the causes of crime

So, the Tories are talking about bringing back prison boats.
According to the BBC website, ‘A Conservative spokesman said: “it is something we are considering as a way of ending Labour’s early release scheme that has allowed 75,000 offenders to be released early from prison.”
And, as Bright Green blogger Gary Dunion has often pointed out to [...]

Now we know the victims of Annabel Goldie’s class war

I mentioned in my post yesterday the Tories’ calls for cuts to various popular initiatives in the Budget; I didn’t, of course, mean that list to be exclusive. No one has the time to list all the cuts the Conservatives want.
Another key one had the limelight today, as Scottish Tory finance spokesman Derek Brownlee repeated [...]