A tale of two women
When Sarah Teather was announced as Education Minister last week, I was more than a little surprised. Teather’s not been around for that long, yet she was able to secure a pretty decent job in the Con Dem government.
I suspect that criticism around the failure to include more women had stung the Con Dem leaders [...]
What will a coalition government mean for black Britain?
http://www.voice-online.co.uk/content.php?show=17535
One thing is clear, coalition governments are fraught with difficulties and pose all sort of questions and possibilities.
Last Thursday’s election proved inconclusive, with the public seemingly unable to choose a clear winner. The smart money is on the Lib Dems working out a long term deal with David Cameron but [...]
27 BME MPs now- but is that enough?
It’s been a mixed night for BME candidates-ones that were widely tipped to win: Shaun Bailey and Willfred Emmanuel Jones, didn’t make it in the end.
But we did see Priti Patel and Rushanara Ali make it in.
Biggest BME dissapointment of the night must be Dawn Butler in Brent Central. But on the other hand, there’s now [...]
a bit of sense in the immigration debate
I was in the audience of a BBC Essex election debate last night with PPCs from Labour, the Conservatives, Liberal Democrats, Green Party and UKIP.
As to be expected, one question from the audience focused on immigration. The UKIP representative gave the typical: ‘we would freeze all immigration’ response. Thankfully, however, there was some sense spoken [...]