BNP in the Lords – data leak names sitting peer as a party member

You’d think the BNP would have tightened it’s data handling after the leaked list fiasco back in November 2008. Tomorrow may prove their disregard for data protection, as another list will be leaked. However, this one is causing a lot of controversy on the Twitterverse and blogosphere tonight as it reveals the name of a [...]

Fash well and truely trashed in Barnsley

BNP owned in Barnsley. The BNP, having got just a little bit cocky, had targeted Barnsley as a potential win. Obviously, they’d thrown all of their possible resources into winning this seat. They failed, and quite substantially. Full result: Labour 1520 BNP 590 Independent 171 UKIP 94 Tory 89 Lib Dem 78 Lab majority 930. [...]

What the papers/blogs say: Speaker Election

Great defender of the people, The Daily Telegraph: “Enter Speaker Bercow, the ultimate red Tory. So rapidly has he moved from Left to Right that he may soon be whistling the Internationale while laying flowers on Karl Marx’s grave. John Bercow has led a lacklustre field in calling for an upheaval of parliamentary procedure. He [...]