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17 hours ago ago from PoliticsScot's Blog

The SNP are a Scotland-only party. Labour are a UK-wide party. This gives the SNP the unique and very effective advantage that they can claim with some justification, it would seem that Scottish Labour are a.) constrained in their actions by the party's London HQ and b.) ignored by their party HQ on reserved issues when it really matters. To observers of Scottish politics, the above will be an OBVIOUS point. It seems amazing to me, ...

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13 hours ago ago from The Widmann Blog

To Many Cheetahs Originally uploaded by Picture Taker 2 People who oppose proportional representation often imagine that all you'd get would be hung parliaments consisting of the same parties that we have now, so that the only possibilities for forming a government would be a Labour-LibDem coalition or a Tory-LibDem one. I can see why that wouldn't appeal a lot to supporters of either Labour or the Conservatives. However, many ...

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18 hours ago ago from Stevevirgin's Blog

 The Conservative Party has obviously learned something about online marketing from its friends at Google. The party seems to have been busy making sure that anyone using the internet search engine to find out about Alistair Darling's pre-Budget report will quickly find themselves reading George Osborne's views on the state of the economy instead.  The Conservatives are making use of Google's AdWords platform to make sure that anyone ...

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Irish Budget vs. UK PBR

19 hours ago ago from Capitalists@Work

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19 hours ago ago from Politically Incorrect

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