Whilst I love seeing headlines like this Leaders at the G20 summit in Canada agree the richest members will halve their budget deficits within three years. (BBC News) They beg the questions Where is all that money coming from (or not going to)? Are they going to be creating wealth and making savings (“G20 stop [...]
Hooray! Listen – you’ve heard my comment, which is one word. It’s the first time you’ve had a one word statement and it is, hooray. And I’ll repeat it. Paddy Ashdown BBC News – New government: Reaction in quotes.
We are now a 3 party country John Humphries, Today, Radio 4 We have been a 3 party country all my life. More than that, in fact. The media has failed to represent this truth fairly and is now acting surprised like it’s not their fault that the LibDems haven’t been taken seriously. When people [...]
A TAZ is the socio-political tactic of creating temporary spaces that elude formal structures of control – the best way to create a non-hierarchical system of social relationships is to concentrate on the present and on releasing one’s own mind from the controlling mechanisms that have been imposed on it. Temporary Autonomous Zone, by Hakim [...]
It is high time for me to put an end to your sitting in this place, which you have dishonored by your contempt of all virtue, and defiled by your practice of every vice; ye are a factious crew, and enemies to all good government; ye are a pack of mercenary wretches, and would like [...]
Hello, Democracy Fans! Tomorrow (Thursday 4th) is voting day, so be sure to find your local polling station and get out there and vote! Because this year there are A LOT of muppets running. (If only.. that would actually quite fun…) UKIP and BNP are going to do very well in these elections as the [...]
Here’s a handy 30 question survey which will tell you which of the main parties you are most allied to: http://euprofiler.eu
At midnight last night, the voting closed on my – our – 14 day long bid to make me your independent MEP for the South West. We made it to second place on the ballot, with some 460 votes (in the fury of urgent texting I forgot the actual number, but will find out on [...]
The transcript of the introductory video at www.elected.in, as requested by a few folks: Hello. My name’s Ed Dowding and I’m running to be an independent MEP, because I’m bored of politics. I’m bored of the short term thinking, I’m bored of the arguments about people and not about issues, and I’m bored by the [...]
