Vote for Britain

Tomorrow, Britain goes to the polls. The 2015 General Election is under-way and the outcome is far from certain.   … If the polls are accurate, then we are facing the likely possibility of a Hung Parliament – when no party has a majority. When this happened in the 2010 General Election, it was the first time since 1974 so it could be dismissed as a one-off. Now it could be about to become a…

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Should we reform the House of Lords?

A recent governement defeat reminds me of what I value in our unelected upper house.   … This is an subject which I had not been planning to write about quite so soon, however I found a friend gathering opinions on Twitter in the aftermath of a government defeat on a controversial bill currently going through Parliament.   … The bill in question was the ‘Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing…

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