Comments on: Happy New Year

by: canvas

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:31:59 +0000

It doesn’t look like this blog is being kept up-todate ??

Ed, INTERACTION is a good thing! Please, try it.

What do you think about Obama winning Iowa? I think it’s great news! Young new voters turned out in record numbers to have their say - they voted for Obama because they REALLY do want change. Change and hope are more important to the people in Iowa than ‘experience’. Go Obama!

by: Lucy

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:14:33 +0000

Ed, you say ‘Cameron is ahead but not over the finishing line’. Surely issues he could focus on to get him over that line are the wider, global and overall the issues that befit a future Prime Minister, for example I am sorry to see that neither yourself nor Mr Cameron are planning to attend our ‘Disarmament and Globalisation’ Conference at SOAS on Monday 7th Jan. Why not have a look at Freedland’s article published yesterday in The Guardian : http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,2234009,00.html

by: Votedave

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:30:04 +0000

Happy New Year folks.

by: Andrew

Thu, 03 Jan 2008 00:17:30 +0000

I hope you will keep up-to-date your excellent and thought-provoking blog. And I agree with your analysis that Brown is down but not out. My worry is that he will get the backing of the likes of Oxfam and the other bg charities, which are in bed with Labour. Here’s the wish list of Antonia Bance, deputy director and campaigns manager of Oxfam’s UK Poverty Programme, and it would appear that she would do everything to ensure that Brown rises again, even if it might mean using her senior management position in Oxfam:
1. The Chancellor commit £4 billion to halve child poverty by 2010 in the Budget
2. Labour consistently up in the polls, Ken winning again in London, and the feelgood factor back as through a few bright new ideas, good policies, quietly dropping some duff ones, no clangers and discipline we remind the country why they’ve trusted us for a decade
3. An outright Labour majority on Oxford City Council when we go to bed early in the morning of Friday 2 May
4. The last residents living in Orlit houses on Rose Hill moving into the wonderful newly-built houses, as Taylor Wimpey get stuck in and start building; a new Fresh Start primary school on our estate; crime continuing to fall; and the youth club opening for longer hours
5. A liberalisation of abortion law, to enable women to access abortion on demand; a significant narrowing of the gender pay gap; increased funding for rape crisis centres
6. Hundreds of new houses built in Oxford, hundreds of thousands nationally, and increased regulation to target profiteering and unscrupulous landlords

by: Tizzy

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:05:23 +0000

Happy New Year to everyone, don’t bother with resolutions until this gvt goes; you need something to make life worthwhile.

Got a new contract with Sky, Ed?

by: Sue

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:59:56 +0000

Ed, you got another mention on Iain Dale’s blog http://www.iaindale.blogspot.com/ - not sure that it’s entirely complimentary lol

by: canvas

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:46:21 +0000

well, well, well…He’s back.

You really need to be more dedicated to your blog, Ed. Happy New Year.

Happy birthday to the Missus. And good luck with your quest to stop smoking and lose weight.

According to Dizzy Thinks - Gordon Brown plans to refuse you treatment on the NHS if you are a smoker. How very dare he?

http://dizzythinks.net/

by: Sue

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 11:39:17 +0000

Happy New Year Ed - thrilled to see you back

Happy Birthday Mrs Ed, I hope you have a very lovely day.

Any chance of you adding “I will comment on the comments on my blog” to your new year resolutions Ed?

Drat, I remember I said I’d shut up if you came back - looks like my first resolution has been broken already