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  Britain votes indecisively On Thursday there was no clear winner in the general election, so we’re now facing an uncertain period where the various parties jockey for position and do deals to secure a majority of the commons votes. As an observer of politics it will undoubtedly be an interesting time, but as a UK taxpayer it’s at [...]

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  Sky News leaders’ debate tonight The leaders of the three main parties will assemble in Bristol this evening for the second of three live televised debates. After the first (which I actually didn’t see on account of me being ill) went the way of the Liberal Democrats’ leader Nick Clegg (principally because he was able to dodge the blame for [...]

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  The case for voting Conservative The case for voting Conservative | The Spectator. In the face of relentlessly negative campaigning, Fraser Nelson has outlined ten excellent reasons to vote Conservative in the forthcoming general election. My personal favourite is number 7 regarding civil liberties: “the state should be small and people should be big.”

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  How liberal are you? The Libertarian Party have posted this short quiz on their website to determine exactly how liberal you are by asking about your views on various subjects. In case you’re interested, I turned out to be 90% liberal! The Libertarian Party UK – Take The Test. Tagged: Libertarian Party UK, Libertarianism

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  Jack Straw stands his ground on Jon Venables case BBC News – Bulger killer Jon Venables’ recall reasons stay secret. Despite mounting pressure from the media on Justice Secretary Jack Straw, he has stated in the House of Commons that the reasons behind Jon Venables’ recent return to prison will remain secret. For those not familiar with Venables’ crime, I won’t repeat the horrific [...]

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  The Twitter “Bomb Hoax” case: worse than we thought? via thelawyer.com ‘The Lawyer’ journal has today published a detailed analysis into the Paul Chambers “Twitter-bomber” case. I would advise anyone who posts onto the internet either via blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Myspace or any other site to read this carefully. The way that the Crown Prosecution Service now appear able to charge someone for a [...]

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  Lord Ashcroft reveals Westminster’s worst-kept secret This morning, Conservative peer Lord Ashcroft finally announced what everyone really knew all along; that he was not resident in the UK for tax purposes. In essence what this means is that Lord Ashcroft is not taxed on his overseas income that remains outside of the UK. A person ordinarily-resident in the UK would have [...]

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  Pre-election polls don’t always reflect what will happen at a General Election The latest YouGove poll for the Sunday Times shows that the Conservative lead over Labour has dropped to only 2 points. A lot of commentators who pay far too much attention to polls of 1,000 people will say that it is now game over for the Conservatives. This morning I would like to point out [...]

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  New MORI/Observer poll shows Conservative lead at 17 points In a new poll due to be published in tomorrow’s Observer, the Conservatives now lead Labour by 17 points, an increase of 11 points from the last poll reading by the same organisation. UK Polling Report claims that the previous result was due to the sample including a large number of 2005 Labour voters, and [...]

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  The spectre of high inflation rises again According to the Spectator (Inflation nation | The Spectator), Britain’s inflation is beginning to surge once more. This is hardly a surprise to anyone with a passing interest in economics: if you print money, it’s value will fall. We’re now starting to see the fallout from the Bank of England’s ‘quantitative easing’ program which bought [...]

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