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Monthly Archives: March 2011
Mar 29 2011
The coalition government is facing criticism for its failure to keep the transparency agenda moving forward, but lessons can be learned by looking to Canada
Leave a commentTweet In Canada last week, Stephen Harper’s Conservative government was defeated by a motion of no-confidence which declared the government to be in contempt of Parliament for its refusal to share information that opposition members had requested to properly assess … Continue reading
Posted by: March 29, 2011
Tagged with: Canada, data, Freedom of Information, government, politics, Stephen Harper, Tony Blair, transparency, UK, uk government
Mar 29 2011
Budget 2011: Government’s ‘pothole priority’ proves its lack of commitment to localism
Leave a commentTweet George Jones looks at last week’s budget and finds that the generally overlooked provision of extra funds to Councils to repair potholes is yet another sign that the government is not serious about its localism agenda. One of the … Continue reading
Posted by: March 29, 2011
Tagged with: Budget 2011, centralism, councils, localism, Whitehall
Mar 28 2011
Budget 2011: The new flat rate pension will reduce poverty among the retired, but employers who offer good pensions may be penalised financially as a result
Leave a commentTweet Last Wednesday’s budget introduced the government’s plans for a flat rate pension credit. While Tim Leunig welcomes these plans, he finds that the burden for funding this new system may well fall on employers in a significant way. The … Continue reading
Posted by: March 28, 2011
Tagged with: Budget 2011, contributions, national insurance, Pensions, tax
Mar 28 2011
Budget 2011: A footnote to the existing agenda, but the public is waking up to the attack on the welfare state
Leave a commentTweet Richard Hyman offers this short comment on the 2011 Budget in light of Saturday’s demonstrations in London. Last week’s budget was a footnote to the agenda already in place. The rise in VAT to 20 per cent is a … Continue reading
Posted by: March 28, 2011
Tagged with: Budget 2011, corporation tax, cuts, demonstrations, VAT
Mar 28 2011
Saturday’s demonstrations showed the media’s difficulties in reporting the issues and the actions of a small group of protesters at the same time
Leave a commentTweet Should you blame the media if your demo doesn’t work? Charlie Beckett takes a look at Saturday’s protests from the journalist’s point of view. There are three big dilemmas in reporting any major demonstration where there is violence. Firstly, … Continue reading
Posted by: March 28, 2011
Tagged with: 26 March, cuts, demonstrations, government, media, power, public spending, social media, TUC, UK, uk government
Mar 28 2011
STV in Scotland shows us that voters can adapt to preferential voting systems – but political parties may take longer to fully grasp the new system
Leave a commentTweet In the run up to the AV referendum in May, there has been considerable debate and commentary from both campaigns on how AV would actually operate. In this light, it is worth considering the impact of the last large-scale … Continue reading
Posted by: March 28, 2011
Tagged with: Electoral Reform, government, political parties, politics, power, Scotland, stv, UK, uk government, voting reform
