Last night’s leaders’ debate. I don’t want to say I was breathless with anticipation in the run up, but I was looking forward to the whole thing. But by the half way point of last night’s proceedings, I really had to push myself to keep watching. Not because it was a depressing indictment of modern […]
Archives for April 2015
The big problem with Labour’s zero hours contract policy: it could make things even worse
“I couldn’t live on a zero hours contract,” Ed Miliband told the crowd and indeed the nation during the non-debate Paxo debate. So why then has he come up with a policy that will offer at least 80% of those currently on zero hours contracts what amounts to no help at all, and actually very […]
Is it just me or has the Tories’ election campaign been pretty bad so far?
Monday evening, Grant Shapps was interviewed by Evan Davis on Newsnight. Davis pointed out that the Tories’ claim that a Labour government would cost every working household £3,028 was incorrect – the TV journalist explained that the £3k figure was actually a five year projection, not per year as insinuated. Also, that the £15 billion […]