The fruitcakes are back as Ukip declares war with the BBC.
342 Comments 1 May 2015 14:44 Sebastian Payne Follow @SebastianEPayne. Nigel Farage is surrounded by media during a UK general election campaign event in the market square in Aylesbury on April 30, 2015. Ukip is becoming a��.
Unattended Articles: Earning it (NOO EXCITING ELECTION.
Earning it (NOO EXCITING ELECTION BLOG). Or: Why this http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/ made me finally join the Labour Party. I didnt see this coming a month ago. I dont mean the interview, although no I didnt see that coming either;. And to find that exciting I must at some point have stopped believing he was an eye-watering liability, so when did that happen?. Here, finally, was the most cogent and coherent (those words dont mean the same thing do they?)��.
BBC Question Time Leaders special: how the exchanges unfolded
He said: If we fall short I will do the right thing for the country. I plead with people.. Mr Miliband, a former aide to Gordon Brown, insisted that Labour did not spend too much public money in the years running up to the financial crisis. Mr.
Election 2015 live: Labour will stand up to corporate power.
British taxpayers should expect to feel worse off under whichever party wins the general election next week, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies. In a scathing... Praising the Lib Dem ���dream team��� in coalition, she said: ���If you look at the record they have, shared parental leave, more apprenticeships, stabilising the economy, the amount of things they have done with 56 MPs... oh that piccie of Dave is ripe for drawing a little moustache, braces and.. swastika.
Labour should be embarrassed about holding a sex.
And rather than defend this practice, none of the Labour candidates have been willing to comment on the subject. Jack Dromey. If separate male and female political engagement doesnt sound to you like male political engagement, in which a few women are allowed to watch, look again at the photograph Si��n Simon tweeted. In the front two... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/11547287/David-and-Samantha-Cameron-visit-Sikh-temple.html.
Election 2015 live blog: Sunday 29 March, as it happened.
Labour has come under pressure on how it would reduce the deficit after Lucy Powell, Labours campaign co-ordinator, clashed with Andrew Neil on the BBCs Sunday Politics show. She said. Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, has told the Sunday Times the Conservatives will fully fund a five-year plan drawn up by Sir Simon Stevens, the head of NHS England, and keep the budget rising faster than inflation.. After all the build up, its finally actually happening.
Election 2015: Scottish Labour Leader Jim Murphy to lose seat, poll finds
Tweet @rosaprinceuk or email rosa.prince@telegraph.co.uk. They are bad for Scottish Labour and if they are repeated on election day two things will happen ��� the SNP will have more MPs and David Cameron will walk back into Downing Street again.
Election 2015 live: Tebbit ��� Camerons SNP scare tactics.
His comments follow the remarks of Tory peer Lord Forsyth that leading Conservatives are playing a ���short term and dangerous��� game that threatens the future of the UK by building up the SNP as a way of damaging the Labour party in Scotland... And if they continue to stop taking the higher political profile that they did and to concentrate on looking after their members and their working conditions, that is a perfectly proper thing for trade unions to do and I would��.
Election 2015: Nick Clegg loses power while unveiling policies at Liberal.
. for children. Tweet @rosaprinceuk or email rosa.prince@telegraph.co.uk. will happen. But any company has to contemplate those things... The National Union of Students has launched a poster campaign labelling the party liars for breaking.
Election 2015: a survival guide
BBC political editor Nick Robinson, who has been making a tentative comeback following his cancer treatment, will be on hand to provide analysis, with Newsnights Laura Kuenssberg monitoring social media and Emily Maitlis analysing the results on a.
General Election 2015: heres what will happen after the election
According to research published by the House of Commons Library, just 51.8pc of 18- to 24-year olds voted in the 2010 election, compared with 75pc of pensioners. Miliband will be hoping some of those disillusioned voters will change their mind and back .
Election 2015: David Cameron rules out third term - as it.
Thats all for tonight. Heres a round up of all thats happened in politics this evening: News that David Cameron does not plan to stand for a third term if he is elected this May has dominated the front pages. In an interview with��.
Labour accused of hiding Ed Miliband from official election sketch artist
The Lib Dems say: We need a proportionate system for voting rights on laws that only affect England, similar to the way the devolution of power to other parts of the UK has also resulted in proportional representative elections for Scotland, Wales and.
General election bingo: 31 things that are bound to happen between now and.
Danny Alexander does same with his resemblance to Beaker. Also fools precisely nobody. News footage shows ���campaign battle buses��� barrelling down motorways, as if voters are still impressed by a temporarily-painted coach with some party officials on it .
Election 2015 ��� live: SNP will not call the shots says Ed.
3 - Miliband really does believe that greater equality and growth are not mutually exclusive. One of the most interesting exchanges came when Davis asked about Thatchers views on wealth and inequality. (See 7.52pm.)��.
Economists View: Paul Krugman: Economics and Elections
Economics and Elections, by Paul Krugman, Commentary, NY Times: Britains economic performance since the financial crisis struck has been startlingly bad.. Yet as. Bad things will happen to good ideas, and vice versa. So be it.. Nick Clegg shut out of television debates as Labour join minor parties | via @Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/nick-clegg/11487511/Nick-Clegg-shut-out-of-television-debates-as-Labour-join-minor-parties.html
Things dont just happen (Judith Dumont) | The Shetland.
I note the following regarding the leaked French memo in The Herald on Monday morning.. April 6th, 2015 17:03. Agree completely ��� especially about privatising Royal Mail! And that comment ���these things happen��� about a deliberate, lying smear leaves a bad taste in the mouth. So does burglary, Mr Carmichael, but it... I will certainly be looking out for his result.. More articles about Alistair Carmichael, General Election, Liberal Democrats and UK Government.
General election 2015 sketch: Forget about sluts ��� Ukip love women (and our.
(As it happens, I attended the Ukip ���womens event��� in 2013 when Mr Bloom announced that the room was ���full of sluts���. The Ukip women, as I recall, laughed; indeed, theyd been playfully coaxing him into saying it, by calling out things like, ���Just so.
Election 2015: Alex Salmond rules out SNP deal with Tories.
Election 2015: Alex Salmond rules out SNP deal with Tories ��� as it happened. With 44 days until polling day, follow all the twists and turns of the election campaign with Andrew Sparrow and the Guardians team of reporters.
PMQs: David Cameron trips up Ed Miliband with VAT pledge: as it happened
Tweet your comments to @rosaprinceuk or email rosa.prince@telegraph.co.uk. There will be another liveblog tomorrow, as Mr Miliband and Mr Cameron take part in the first non-debate of the election campaign.. The look on Mr Milibands face. It was.
Election 2015 live: Gordon Brown - the SNP are not offering.
. points ahead of Labour. And in non election news, Lutfur Rahman, the mayor of Tower Hamlets was kicked out of office after being found guilty of widespread corruption in seeking office last May... As you will probably have gathered from reading our document, we did not actually assume 1.4% of GDP borrowing, this was the outcome of using [the SNPs] stated plans for total spending, plus estimates of the effect of their tax measures. In terms of the implications��.
Danny Alexander and the private dinner with Telegraphs dodgy donor
���The hard thing about those broadcasts is, in a way you want to do something cheeky or funny or something thats going to get peoples attention,��� she said. ���But when youre the deputy prime minister you sort of have to be the statesman, so in a way, I.
Podcast special: end of year roundup and predictions for 2015
. some predictions. With next years general election being one of the most difficult to forecast in decades, we instead asked our writers for their hunches on what they presently feel might happen:. To me ultimately, the most important thing is who is going to be Prime Minister. If its Miliband, itll be a.. As regards to the ���right-wing��� media (Times, Telegraph and Mail), none of their owners are domiciled in the UK despite having business interests there. Behind every��.
General election 2015 sketch: SamCam and George Osborne get down to.
���In our factory we employ people of all different political persuasions,��� said Mr Corbett, ���but we all welcome [Mr Osbornes] reduction in corporation tax. And what hes going to do for us in the next five years I think will be tremendous. Just the.
Three things Michael Deacon learned this week about Ukip, Eton, and toddlers
Why the discrepancy? I think the following story is quite telling.. How did he get hold of these people? ���Oh, I just write and. To us it seemed like a strange and remote world to which none of us could possibly gain entry.. On the contrary, I.
The age of Nick Clegg is drawing to an end
Coppard, an attractive and apparently gifted campaigner, is running as a local candidate in a seat that has been lacking in representation because the incumbent MP has been off doing other things. Take a look at Coppards website. Its very revealing.
Election 2015 ��� live: Ed Miliband adviser warns of Tory ���fog.
Join our political team for full coverage from the election campaign trail as David Cameron launches the Tory manifesto in Wales and Nick Clegg campaigns in Scotland.. What happened today. David Cameron went on the attack following the clash between Ed Miliband and Nicola Sturgeon during the opposition leaders TV debate, claiming the Labour leader would be in hock to Scottish nationalists if... David Cameron looks up as he works on his speech earlier.
Election 2015 live: Miliband urges voters in Scotland not to.
If we set England against Scotland, it does not help working people, it harms working people. It undermines the ability to share resources. Nationalism doesnt understand we are stronger, not weaker when we look after each��.
General Election 2015: Attacks on Ed Miliband low rent and laughable says.
Tweet @rosaprinceuk or email rosa.prince@telegraph.co.uk.. Im told ballot papers will not be sent out until the back end of next week, which means if we are lucky they will not arrive until some time the following week and will then have to be sent.
Election 2015 sketch: Look. None of the following things actually happened.
Really. I mean it. The general election. Did it happen? Is it true? I mean, I watched it happen, but Im just not convinced. The Conservatives winning a majority ��� that cant have happened. Ed Miliband, Nigel Farage, Nick Clegg resigning ��� that cant.
Election 2015 live: Clegg marks red lines for deals with either
With most polls pointing to a hung parliament, journalists during the election have been avidly hunting for ���red lines��� - the non-negotiable demands that would stop one party doing a deal with another. And Evan Davis did��.
Election TV debate - as it happened, March 26, 2015
Under tougher questioning (especially on his brother) than the PM, he mostly he did well. Against Jeremy Paxman, he came out fighting, and occasionally flailing, on migration and the sins of the last government. On trust, the underlying theme of the.