Losing by-elections is an expensive game. £4,500 down the drain. The Liberal Democrats received less than 5% of the vote in Thursday’s Newark by-election, meaning they they forfeited the £500 deposit all candidates must provide in order to get onto the ballot. This is the ninth time the Lib Dems have lost their deposit in…
Senior Labour MP rails against the professionalisation of politics 1. Ed Miliband is part of a “new class” of career politicians making British politics worse, Labour MP Margaret Hodge has said. View this image › Neil Hall / Reuters The senior Labour MP, known for pursuing tax avoiding companies, said British politics was poorer because…
At one point a candidate for the post of West Midlands police and crime commissioner was speaking to a woman with a spliff in her mouth. BF_STATIC.timequeue.push(function () { if (BF_STATIC.bf_test_mode) localStorage.setItem(‘posted_date’, 1408709782); }); BF_STATIC.timequeue.push(function () { document.getElementById(“update_posted_time_3424376”).innerHTML = “posted on ” + UI.dateFormat.get_formatted_date(1408709782); }); View this image › Siraj Datoo / BuzzFeed BIRMINGHAM, England…
The education secretary spat out George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley’s rhymes while on a school visit. 1. Amazing. vine.co 2. LINK Watch the full BBC clip here. bbc.co.uk Read more: http://buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/watch-michael-gove-rap-wham-lyrics
The Prime Minister named a rare breed piglet after his daughter. Something about snouts in troughs. 1. Prime Minister, meet pig. View this image › REX USA/David Hartley / Rex Look at the happy look on its little face. And the pig is quite content as well. One of them is Florence, a rare breed…