Like them or loathe them the UK’s biggest double act of the moment is off to a bit of a flier. Of course I’m talking about CammerClegg and their first two weeks in office although I could equally be talking about Ant and Dec and the return of Britain’s Got Talent.
The Boundary Commission yesterday released their report on the new Scottish constituencies for the Scottish Election in May 2011. The Scotland Act requires the Boundary Commission for Scotland to periodically review the Boundaries for the Scottish Parliament. Periodic reviews are in place to ensure that constituencies reflect demographic change.
Today the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats unveiled their plans for the next 5 years. Follow the link below to read the full agreement.
ConLib Coalition Agreement.
So, Mr Cameron’s ‘big, open and comprehensive’ offer to the Liberal Democrats worked. We have the first coalition government in nearly 70 years leading the UK and it only took 6 days to form. This is significantly less than the European average of 39 days – their leaders must not care about national interest as ours.
The UK General Election has been heralded as an election of change and by and large the public have voted for change. However there is a lack of certainty over the type of change desired.
Voting Intention 6th April 2010: Labour 31%, Conservative 41%, Lib Dem 18%
Today, Gordon Brown announced that the 2010 General Election would be held on May 6th, the campaign has begun. This election as all elections in the UK are is a two horse race between Labour and the Conservatives, Left and Right, Red and Blue. Of course, there is a sprinkling of Yellow throughout as the Lib Dems go through the motions of a campaign speaking in town halls, school classrooms and local hospitals with an accompanying audience invariably asking ‘who’s that?’. For your information, the leader of the Liberal Democrats is Nick Clegg.
So far the road to Downing Street has been gaffe and gate free. No scandal to report. The only thing I can think of remotely close to scandal is the revelation that Nick Clegg was being paid money into his personal bank account which he swatted away speedily and it was just as promptly dismissed as a shameful right wing media attack. I suppose though that it is unlikely that anyone will believe a bad word about Mr Clegg at the moment.
In a strange turn of events David Cameron hit upon the answer…or rather was hit by the answer. It was the chicken that came first – the egg didn’t come until Wednesday. Poor old Mr Cameron, its bad enough that he’s seen his lead in the polls wither away and surpassed by the Liberal Democrats this week, the Daily Mirror then sends a chicken to follow him and a hoodie throws an egg at him. Does this young man not realise that all Dave wants to do is hug him? I think you’d all agree that’s not a great week.
Following the launch of the Labour manifesto on Monday, the Conservatives released their ‘Invitation to join the government of Britain’ yesterday. Tell your family, Mr Cameron said, tell your friends, tell your friends to tell their friends, tell your friend to tell their friends to tell their friends, tell… Well you get my point. Thank …
Morhamburn’s authoritative round-up of all Holyrood activity for the week ahead.
For full report (PDF) please click here.