The UK will be hit by strike action by some 1.5 million people on March 26th. The action will take place by Council / Local Authority Staff. This is the biggest strike in the UK since 1926. The strike could have another twist is teachers also decide to join in with the planned action. It […]
Looks like the Democrats are slowly moving towards supporting Feingold. Raw Story is reporting that Barbara Boxer has signed on as a co-sponsor of the censure resolution: Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) has become the third U.S. senator to back a move to censure President Bush over the warrantless wiretapping program. She joins Sen. Tom Harkin […]
Here is more polling data that was compiled on the Washington Post’s blog by Chris Cillizza. This is really interesting because it deals with the 2006 generic ballot: Organization SurveyDates GOP Dem Diff. CNN/USA Today/Gallup 3/10-12 39 55 D+16 Fox/Opinion Dynamics 2/28-3/13 34 48 D+14 CNN/USA Today/Gallup 2/28-3/13 39 53 D+14 Democracy Corps (D) […]
Bush has done it again. He has set a new low. PEW has released their latest approval rating for Bush and he is now at 33%, down by 7% from February. Also in the same poll they focused on the port deal. 58% feel Congress acted appropriately by opposing the deal while only 24% felt […]
Tony Blair has one the 2nd vote on the prgramme motion by 10 votes. Even though he has won the vote his days are numbered as leader. He has indicated for a while that he will step down before the end of his term, the votes tonight will make this sooner rather than later. 1 […]
Tony Blair has won the vote for the second reading of the new Education Bill, 51 of his own MP’s voted against it which is not good, therefore it was only with the help of the opposition that it was passed. We now await the vote on the progrmme motion which everyone is saying will […]
Those were the first words that came to my mind when I was looking through the released Abu Ghraib photos on Salon’s site. To see how we are treating these people while sitting there and trying to claim “we are the beacon of freedom” is pure bull shit. Every single person involved from civilian leadership […]
Glenn has a great post up titled “Everything you ever wanted to know about how our government and media work“. This Feingold Censure Resolution is unmasking the hideous underbelly of almost every Washington institution as vividly as anything that can be recalled. Each of the rotted Beltway branches is playing so true to form that […]
While Bush is out to try and control the damage he has done lately, he is still making mistakes. One that really has gotten to me (and something I have followed very closely) is the debacle called Medicare. His defense has me really ticked off: “Any time Washington passes a new law, sometimes the transition […]
At around 7pm (GMT) today there will be a vote on a new education bill in the House of Commons which could decide how much longer Tony Blair stays in power. The bill itself is fairly important to the future of education over here but I won’t go into details as it does not effect […]