Labour's Armani suits detest Blackpool

PITY Blackpool. The faded queen of British holiday resorts, once the pride of Lancashire, languishes in a sea of decay, its trams clanking on their last wheels, the boarding houses failing even to attract those on social benefits. Blackpool helped elect...

Pity Labour in Lowestoft, soon to be marooned in a sea of blue

SUFFOLK council leaders are convinced the Governent will rumble the "nonsense" of Ipswich's bid for unitary status in the 12 week consultation period. Certainly, Ipswich councillors shouldn't get too cocky about their prospects of independence from...

Stay away, Sir Terry

THESE are anxious hours in Ipswich - the borough council desperately awaiting news of its bid for unitary status and Suffolk county council still believing that not even a Labour government could be so stupid as to grant Ipswich its wish. The...

Cameron is the spectre at Gordon's feast

SO Gordon presented his last Budget. Even if he doesn't become Prime Minister, any successor to Tony Blair is unlikely to keep him on in the Treasury. And as he himself said yesterday, the days when the PM could also be Chancellor are long gone - in fact, Mr...

Brown scared of Middle England

EVERYONE hates council tax - the inequitable regressive tax which takes a great chunk of money from those struggling on fixed incomes and pensions. But surely, if any section of society could pay even more property taxesm it is those living in million...

Dave switches to the left

IN the great scheme of things, David Cameron's change of hair parting seems highly insignificant. But when every aspect of the life of our leading politicans comes under the microscope, it assumes hugely significant importance. Was the move from right...

The Conservatives' Tweedledum and Tweedledee want to up taxes . . . on Tory voters!

LET'S start with one unassailable truism  . . .  David Cameron and George Osborne are minted. Which means that should the Tories win the next election, neither Prime Minister Cameron nor Chancellor Osborne will bat an eyelid at extra...

No mercy

PATRICK Mercer's crass remarks on soldiers being called "black bastards" were no doubt used to illustrate a point about rising above insults, but in these days of touchy-feely politics, he was never going to keep his job. David Cameron acted swiftly...

The House of Lost Causes

WHEN we replace the House of Lords with an elected upper chamber, what will it be called? Let's hope it's not the Senate (or House of the Flying Daggers, if you get the Caesarean connection). Although very grand sounding, I doubt if Labour MPs will want...