Health, Westminster
Keep the NHS Public
Posted on January 31, 2011 by Alasdair Thompson | 2 Comments
The coalition’s Health and Social Care Bill faces it’s second reading today in Parliament today and threatens to drastically reorganise health care in this country. The average person interacting with their GP or hospital might not notice the changes immediately. But make no mistake, these proposals go to the very heart of our health service. [...]
Millbank was just the Beginning: Everyone must have Access to Education
Posted on November 24, 2010 by Adam Ramsay | No Comments
I’m writing this from Whitehall. The smell of burning ink is ever present, as smoke drifts from a bonfire of placards in the middle of the road. The cheers and grunts from the crowd trying to push through the line of riot police mixes with the Michael Jackson songs played by those who have occupied [...]
Pictures from Today’s Student Protests
Posted on November 24, 2010 by Peter McColl | 2 Comments
Following the massive “Demolition” protest in London two weeks ago, today is a day of student action. From protests to occupations, we’re carrying images from around the country. The Protest Gathers in Edinburgh by Ali Thompson: The Sit-in in Cambridge by Paul Sagar: “They’ve Taken Our Educational Maintenance Allowance” by Adam Ramsay: Universities and Colleges [...]
The Green solution to Unemployment, Deficit and Recession
Posted on October 25, 2010 by Peter McColl | 6 Comments
The country is at an economic turning point. Wednesday was the most significant domestic political event of most of our lives. It was the full announcement of a Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR). Unfortunately the CSR is final proof what many of us predicted before the election. That the Conservative party has a profoundly wrong-headed economic [...]
Propellerheads: History Repeating
Posted on October 19, 2010 by Gary Dunion | 2 Comments
In the run-up to the election, Tories were adamant that Labour were betraying British forces in Afghanistan by refusing to provide enough helicopters, and that casualties were higher as a result. Here’s Cameron: “It is a scandal in particular that they still lack enough helicopters to move around in Afghanistan.” (video below) And here’s Patrick [...]
Now Lib Dems vote against votes at 16
Posted on October 18, 2010 by Adam Ramsay | 5 Comments
Here at Bright Green we try to avoid partisan attacks. They are pretty boring. But this is quite an impressive hattrick. Less than a week after Vince Cable decided to back the findings of the Browne review, and so support the raising of tuition fees that he had promised he would scrap; a few days [...]
Lib Dem hijack is coming from inside the building…
Posted on October 15, 2010 by Gary Dunion | 7 Comments
The National Union of Students is rightly celebrated this morning for hijacking the www.liberaldemocrats.org.uk domain name and pointing it to their video documenting Nick Clegg’s betrayal over tuition fees. But there’s a twist to this seemingly simple tale of cyber-squatting. Eagle-eyed Kris Keane points out that far from being overlooked by the party, allowing the [...]
Liberal Democrats vote against PR
Posted on October 13, 2010 by Gary Dunion | 10 Comments
If you ever had any trouble understanding what the Liberal Democrats stood for, one thing was always certain: the Lib Dems are for PR. The Liberal Democrats, it may charitably be said, are a broad church. They are a party that like any other has legitimate disagreement on policy. But most observers and party members [...]
Time to Take a Stand: Oppose Uncapped Student Fees
Posted on October 12, 2010 by Adam Ramsay | 11 Comments
How many Liberal Democrats does it take to screw in a light-bulb? They don’t – they’re too busy screwing their voters. In universities across the country, the Liberal Democrat’s opposition to fees was symbolic of their claim to stand up for younger voters. And now, after a painfully predictable U-turn, Vince Cable looks like he’s [...]
Save British Science
Posted on September 5, 2010 by Alasdair Thompson | 3 Comments
Amid the fuss this week as the coalition government announced that NHS direct would be scrapped and replaced with the cheaper NHS111, the Telegraph reported that for the second time in three years Jodrell bank is under threat of closure. It’s not clear from their article whether that means their new visitor centre or any [...]
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