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Shortly after polling day, Charles Kennedy announced (also here) that he would be organising a 'policy review', a root-and-branch re-assessment of Liberal Democrat policy to knock it into shape for the new parliament. (This review was originally announced in January). Unfortunately, Kennedy also saw fit to travesty his party's conference by claiming that the party's 'embarrassing' policies (i.e.

Politics Online have revamped their website. They claim: Integrated blog by ePolitics experts and practitioners; RSS feed on the latest buzz; Weekly poll on current news; Enhanced website search function; Preople (sic.) political candidate challenge; Internet and politics book reviews; And much more. See for yourself here.

The Weekly Worker has an article on the tensions within Respect. It's hard to see how this lot can hang together for long, as the SWP and Galloway are essentially on opposite ends of the ice pick. I found this via A Councillor Writes.

I was sitting on a train in the rush hour at Leicester station this evening when a fox came trotting down the length of platform 4. The next thing you know they will be sitting on the train and giving you a dirty look when you ask them to take their brush off the seat next to them.

Research commissioned by John Hemming, Liberal Democrat MP for Birmingham Yardley, has revealed that the democratic mandate (proportion of citizens voting for the government) of the Blair Government is the lowest of the Countries that are members of G8 and lowest of all, but Poland in the EU. Taking all the countries in the EU and G8 only Poland's government has weaker support in the electorate at 19%. The elections in Poland, however, resulted in a minority government. Only four countries the UK, Poland, Latvia and Canada had support from less than 1 in four of the electorate ...

At about 3.30pm today I swore allegiance to the crown and to adhere to the law. I personally have no great problem with the system of constitutional monarchy.

There is something disturbingly ironic about the fact that the new Minister for Women will be carrying out the role without a ministerial salary. Clearly, her first campaign has to be on the issue of equal pay.

Whilst Plaid Cymru struggle to find a role in British politics and their own identity, and whilst the Tories are caught up in their own leadership turmoil and the Liberal Democrats engrossed in a fundamental policy review, the Government plans to take advantage to fast track identity cards through the Houses of Parliament. The Guardian this morning reports that Ministers privately believe they can overcome any renewed Labour rebellion over the legislation by relying on the backing or abstention of some Tory MPs to get it through its second reading vote within a fortnight. They have also made it clear ...