Progress: polling boss on prospects for a hung parliament

Posted by Robert Alcock on May 18, 2008 12:40 AM

PROGRESS, the New Labour think-tank-cum-ginger-group, gets a fair amount of ridicule thrown its way. A personal favourite political scribbler, Kevin Maguire of the Daily Mirror, labeled its monthly self-titled magazine ‘the Blairite Pravda’ (after the Soviet Communist Party’s official rag, its title meaning ‘Truth’). Yet for all Labour’s current headaches in government, the latest Progress missive proves the ‘people’s party’ can still attract loans of grey matter from some intellectual big-hitters.

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Sefton: The heavy hand of history

Posted by Robert Alcock on May 13, 2008 12:34 AM

CONTRIBUTIONS from ‘backbench’ councillors were in short supply at last Thursday’s marathon council meeting. No doubt the hugely extended adjournments – one called for 15 minutes stretched to well over an hour – gave such members plenty of time to vent their views to their party chiefs behind closed doors.

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Sefton Council - Strife through diversity

Posted by Robert Alcock on May 11, 2008 8:56 PM

STAND-OFF – there is no other term to describe what unfolded over more than four-and-a-half hours at Southport Town Hall on Thursday night.

Today, Sefton Council is without a leader and with three of the nine seats on its ruling cabinet unfilled.

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