‘UK’ Archives
Welcome to 2010: the year of your first general election
It’s the start of a new decade, and in the political realm it is the year where we are going to have the first general election that the majority of you reading this will be able to vote in. So what are the choices? Well, we’ve got the choice of voting Labour and keeping in a party who saw us go through the recession worse off than the [...]
National News in a Nutshell: The Conference Season
It's that time of year- the time of year that people get 'flu'. But, it’s also the time of year that the major political parties in Britain have their annual conferences. If you’ve missed them this year then the next couple of hundred words will attempt to fill you in with some of the major points. First things first, The Liberal [...]
Student Finance: A fantastic thing isn’t it?
It’s taken 87 minutes on hold, three phone arguments with some very rude and unhelpful Scottish people at Student Finance England (ironic isn’t it) and I still do not have my loan. Turns out my local council, who used to sort out the loans, decided “problem” applications would be deleted from the system and all knowledge of the student [...]
Defence of the expenses
Unknown to most - I’m sure – University of Huddersfield’s Harold Wilson lecture of 2009 was given by Lord David Steel and when expenses were brought up during his question time with students he pointed out that when he first became an MP, in the mid 1960s, MPs were paid pittance and expected to make the bulk of their living outside of their [...]
