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time-4-changeHello there. I am a young, Labour Councillor for Holgate ward in the City of York. I won my seat against the national trend, from the Liberal Democrats. I am hoping to use this medium to let you know what it is like to be a new Councillor, to build a conv |
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New Labour - Soft On Crime
on Dec 12, 2006 in Labour Party Soft On Crime New Labour Are They Really Soft On Crime?For those of you keen to keep up on this kind of thing, I'm pleased to announce that the Labour Party can be found in number one position again in Google for the search phrase soft on crime.Soft on crime has s...
Notes dans les marges
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Fine Gael takes the Irish People for Fools
on Apr 28, 2008 in fine gael RTÉ Radio 1 RTÉ labour party lucinda creighton marian finucane lisbon treaty libertas ulick mcevaddy pat rabbitte Dáil Éireann On a Sunday morning between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. I listen usually to Marian Finucane on RTÉ Radio 1, in order to hear what the Irish nation is talking about. But yesterday I had an outside appointment and thus missed my usual two hours in front of the...
Reflections on my own campaign
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Conservative Foreign Policy
on Jul 12, 2008 in Conservatives liberal interventionism nationalism foreign policy Labour Party Nick Cohen on Tory attitudes to Europe and the rest of the world:[...] Anti-conservatism may no longer stir the left, but opposition to Europe burns as brightly as ever on the right. The Tories are committed to pulling out of the European political b...