No Overall Control

…picking a shadow cabinet when you don’t have all eyes watching, waiting for you to make clear exactly what your intentions are with regard to the party. If your leadership hasn’t been subjected to intense probing by spectators and participants alike you are not under the same pressures and scrutiny and can take stock, deliberate before revealing your hand. Having worked as a constituency MP for the last 18 months and increased her majority in the face of a strong Labour campaign, Sarah is to join the Liberal Democrat ‘front bench’ team....

This graphic was generated from the hit data to this blog between the 3rd and the 9th of May 2005.

Should have done this ages ago… although I’m not sure whether or not the rules apply to my private publication… I’ve changed the info of this site to reflect the fact that Sarah is currently the Parliamentary Candidate for Brent East and not our MP due to the disolution of Parliament.

Found quite a useful page on the Politics website this morning. They have grouped the policies of each of the three main parties on specific areas together for your comparison. Nifty. It beats downloading and reading each of the manifesto documents. But if you really wanted to, here you go Liberal Democrats, PDF file, 20 pages, 1.1mb Labour, PDF file, 56 pages, 916kb Conservatives, PDF file, 32 pages, 712kb Greens, PDF file, 32 pages, 376....

…or had you’d missed that? I want to share the Brent East campaign experience from the point of view of the electorate. And I want to distribute information about the candidates and the parties standing in Brent East to my neighbours in this constituency. So until the 6th of May, when the hangover is gone and the lost sleep caught up on, I’ll put most of my posting efforts into ‘Brent East Campaigning’...