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Ed Miliband: ‘spineless and clueless’

UKIP Leader Nigel Farage MEP described Labour leader Ed Miliband as ‘spineless and clueless’ over his failure to stand up to the Unite union over a bizarre report which described UKIP as having ‘the hallmarks of a pre-fascist movement’. Recently, Nigel Farage wrote to Ed Miliband inviting him to condemn inflammatory, narrow-minded and provocative behaviour … Continue reading

May 2 local elections – the final tally

Thanks to Andy JS who has done a brilliant job collecting and recording the data from each of the 2,208 seats that were fought on May 2nd. In addition to the numbers I’ve included as an option on the chart’s dropdown the shares from the ComRes local elections poll. Compared with the overall vote totals … Continue reading

The EU MOT insanity

Earlier this year the MOT rules for millions of British vehicles was changed to suit the wishes of the EU.  Under the EU’s procedures the Great British public could have faced more EU fines for not  doing what the EU directed us to do. To incorporate the new EU rules for the test without making … Continue reading