The last Labour government has faced many criticisms for many, arguably, valid legal reasons, but the case of Pankina & Others* raises yet further questions about their attitude to lawmaking.
The case concerns immigration – one of the most controversial and complex areas of both political policy and law but, fortunately, one which one is not [...]
Bill Esterson MP, a long-standing councillor for Medway Council’s River Ward, has resigned from the council after moving to his new constituency.
Alan W Collins has learned that the newly-elected Member of Parliament for Sefton Central, in Merseyside, has stood down and will not manage his ward via casework his BlackBerry, as had previously suggested.
The Labour [...]
The FT is reporting that public sector unions are to fight public sector cuts described by Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg as “painful and controversial”.
Let’s be clear before I continue, however, that I have every sympathy for anyone losing their job, but, sadly, c’est la vie, as the French saying goes. Public sector jobs are [...]
Labour activists have been on the offensive about Lord Ashcroft’s non-dom status, despite the fact that their non-dom donors have given more freely than Ashcroft.
In particular, the leading Labour blogger in Medway, Tristan Osborne, has been spewing his bile about Ashcroft’s funding of Tory posters in his new locale of Chatham.
However, the Labour candidate for [...]
The rate of teenage pregnancy in the Medway unitary authority has fallen just 0.06% since 2001, according to the Office of National Statistics, despite apparent investment from the Labour government.
Two weeks ago, AlanWCollins revealed that 54 ten and eleven year-olds have fallen pregnant since 2002 and also that 300 girls aged 13 and under fall [...]
