Withington candidates for the upcoming local elections voted 6-1 against the ID card scheme and compulsory identity database, with only Labour candidate Lucy Powell speaking in defence of the controversial scheme.
Last week, Manchester MULE held our own election themed debate at The Yard Theatre in Hulme. We brought together the panelists Hilary Wainwright (Red Pepper Magazine), Polyp (political cartoonist) and Raph S (Shift Magazine) to discuss democracy and voting on the eve of the 2010 elections. Here is part one of our video series covering the debate.
In two constituencies in the North West Lord Mandelson (who, lest we forget, does not himself have to run for election this year) has interfered with the selection process, essentially ensuring the election of a new generation of allies needed for the post-election bloodshed of a leadership election in a party that may well come […]
Taxpayers are to foot the bill for 250,000 British National Party leaflets to be distributed throughout the North West over the coming weeks.
While our rulers claim to embrace democracy with a dangerous fervour, it’s probably fair to say that many of us have rather less enthusiasm for the elections that come around with such regularity.
