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President Barack Obama - Yes He Did!

I hate to say I told you so, but I did ... I told you why I was backing Barack Obama in February, and guess what? I was right! But you know what - this isn't about me but...

Posted by Veron Graham on November 5, 2008 5:11 AM

Stoke Poges set to go to the ballots

A by-election will take place in Stoke Poges tomorrow (30/10) to co-opt three new members onto the parish council. The election comes following the death of councillor Lionel Rigby earlier this year as well as the resignations of Alan Day...

Posted by Greg Burns on October 29, 2008 4:12 PM

Gurdwara Election Protest

A PROTEST outside the Charity Commission in London has been rescheduled by the opposition in the run-up to the forthcoming Gurdwara elections. Opposition members had planned to protest tomorrow at what they claim is unfair treatment by President Simmat Singh...

Posted by Shujaul Azam on September 15, 2008 11:59 AM

I'm so bored of the USA

Why all the fuss over Obama, McCain, Palin and Biden? This whole country seems to have taken leave of its senses and become obsessed with a political soap story that's got nothing to do with us....

Posted by Tom Scotney on September 11, 2008 11:49 AM

Voting takes place in Amersham

VOTERS go to the polls today in Amersham Town Council's by-election. Tony Reed, a former councillor for Chiltern District Council and Chesham Town Council is going for the role to represent the Liberal Democrats and Ros Aitken who has lived...

Posted by Julie Voyce on May 22, 2008 11:13 AM

Whose fault was it really?

Peter Hain’s targeted intervention over Labour’s dismal election showing is the clearest indication yet that something deeper than a 10p tax gaffe is wrong in the party’s relationship with Welsh voters. The findings of an internal inquest into Labour’s failures...

Posted by Tom Bodden on May 13, 2008 5:31 PM

The unofficial election campaign

When is an election campaign not an election campaign? The answer - when civil servants are called in to help. The Prime Minister and Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, have been in Coventry this morning, launching Labour's local election campaign...

Posted by Jonathan Walker on March 31, 2008 12:34 PM

Why I'm Backing Barack

The American presidential election seldom fails to hold my attention - since the 1980 Reagan v Carter clash - the first one I remember - up to the current Obama/Clinton/McCain battle, which have sent me furiously reading up on the...

Posted by Veron Graham on February 28, 2008 9:25 AM

Beaconsfield candidates set for election showdown

THE candidates have been named for a by-election in Beaconfield to be held on March 6. Two vacancies have arisen following the death of former town councillor Archie Legg and the resignation of Joanna Cocking. Conservative candidates are Suber Akhter...

Posted by Greg Burns on February 12, 2008 3:25 PM

Beaconsfield election on the cards

FOLLOWING two vacancies on Beaconsfield Town Council an election is to be held for replacements. The vacancies have arisen after the death of former councillor Archie Legg last December and the resignation of Joanna Cocking. Nomination forms for the election...

Posted by Greg Burns on January 23, 2008 12:42 PM

Let the Battle start

I BELIEVE Gordon Brown can bounce back from his rapid and remarkable slide from master political strategist into red-faced blunderer. But, at the same time, the fiasco of the general election that wasn’t guarantees that his Prime Ministerial style...

Posted by Rob Merrick on October 10, 2007 5:35 PM

Let the Battle start

I BELIEVE Gordon Brown can bounce back from his rapid and remarkable slide from master political strategist into red-faced blunderer. But, at the same time, the fiasco of the general election that wasn’t guarantees that his Prime Ministerial style...

Posted by me on October 10, 2007 5:35 PM

Who said: "I told you so...?"

In the end, there was something strangely prophetic about this cartoon produced during Labour's election campaign. The 'Rainbow Express' has indeed careered over the precipice. I'm not so sure about the characterisation of Rhodri as the comic-book all-action hero...

Posted by Tom Bodden on May 24, 2007 11:15 AM

Coalition Day

It's just before 7am and I'm thinking of going straight into breakfast at the Castle Hotel in Conwy after watching the Assembly election results roll in, oh so slowly through the night. Labour lost some key marginal seats, including that...

Posted by Tom Bodden on May 4, 2007 6:59 AM

Ex-Labour MP says 'vote Wigley'

Former Labour MP for Clwyd West Gareth Thomas has promised his second vote in the Assembly elections to Plaid Cymru's Dafydd Wigley. Mr Thomas, who narrowly lost his seat at Westminster to the Conservatives in 2005, expects that he served...

Posted by Tom Bodden on May 1, 2007 12:48 PM

Sickening North Wales Bias

All the political roads seem to be heading North with just two days campaigning till Polling Day. Tory leader David Cameron is being deployed in Llandudno, in marginal Aberconwy, for the final push to persuade any devo-reluctant Conservatives to turn...

Posted by Tom Bodden on May 1, 2007 12:15 PM

Hot Red Water

Labour's number one candidate on the North Wales regional list has landed himself in hot water according to the New Statesman. Ken Skates wrote an entry on the publication's Election 2007 blog predicting that his party would fall from 29...

Posted by Tom Bodden on May 1, 2007 11:17 AM

Infamy Infamy II

The Carry On continues in Wales’ most keenly-fought constituency of Clwyd West. (See Infamy, Infamy! and Triflegate below) Now Conservative Darren Millar has rejected claims by opponents that he said homosexuality is a ‘sin’ and supported the teaching of ‘Creationism’...

Posted by Tom Bodden on April 28, 2007 8:19 AM

Crystal Balls #2

Plaid Cymru Ieuan Wyn Jones: “This poll reflects the change that we’ve seen on the doorstep over the past few weeks.� Conservatives Nick Bourne: “This poll does not reflect the evidence we are getting on the doorstep.� Lib Dems Mike...

Posted by Tom Bodden on April 26, 2007 6:00 PM

End of the Rainbow

This is one view of the coalition shenan -igans courtesy of Mumph and ITV Wales....

Posted by Tom Bodden on April 24, 2007 2:44 PM