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  @PhilCane: 40 Labour MPs are to rebel against Labour and Gordon Brown over electoral reform http://bit.ly/bIdOgl
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  @PhilCane: 82% of voters think it is time for a change & 70% believe that society is now broken, Conservative message mirrors public view
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  @psbook: New post --> Pregnant Tory PPC "forced out" under pressure from "dodgy local party chairman" http://bit.ly/bTUgpL
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  @LabourList: New populus poll shows voters increasingly expect hung parliament http://ow.ly/15fzS
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  @pickledpolitics: Something very fishy about the way Tory PPC Joanne Cash abruptly resigned. There's a big scandal there somewhere...
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  @PhilCane: Thought Michael Gove came over so brilliantly on #Newsnight, he's definitely one of the best in the shadow cabinet
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  @KaschWilder: Mr. Gove is clearly applying for a job in the Swedish Government #toryfail #newsnight
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  @psbook: Michael Gove: "I do not know Lord Ashcroft's tax position" #newsnight #brokenrecord
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  @BenBradshawMP: tories admit ashcroft doesnt pay full UK tax ie is non domiciled for tax purposes george young newsnight
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  @doncollier: #bbcbias now turns to Gove about Ashcroft. How about the labour non dom peers #newsnight
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  @LabourList: Miliband and Jowell hold Downing St seminar with mutual & co-op leaders to discuss the mutual moment http://ow.ly/15eY5
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  @samknight: How can Cameron's soundbites make it to headline news relatively unscrutinised?
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  @doncollier: Bradshaw tries to avoid talking about Lab non Dom Lords pathetic hypocrisy #newsnight #labourfail #labourout
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  @doncollier: Lib dem Lab love in on #newsnight and Hune would not shut up again. Think LD & Lab are worried by DC today.
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  @alexwilcock: #Newsnight #Tories Rattled Tory Deputy Chairman Sir George Young just admitted Lord Ashcroft is a non-dom!
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Front Bench Blogs

• Class War and Power Play

  by Sara Scarlett (@sscrltt) on Monday, 8th February 2010

  The longer I am involved in politics the more I grow to dislike class war. The world in which class war exists is a world where no one holds political viewpoints beyond their own vested interests.
  
  That’s a bleak view of humanity isn’t it?
  
  Allowing class war to be successful is a consequence of an apologist society. If you are an administration that has been in power for 12/13 years you should not be able to absolve yourself from failure by simply saying &... read more »

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• Can Labour win back women voters?

  by Claire Spencer (@thedancingflea) on Sunday, 7th February 2010

  On Friday, I chaired an excellent meeting of the Birmingham Fabian Society – we had invited Seema Malhotra (pictured), director of the Fabian Women’s Network and former Chair of the Fabian Society, to talk to us about how Labour can win (or keep) the women’s vote. Her speech and the ensuing discussion were everything that I love about the Fabian Society – vibrant, insightful, illuminat... read more »

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• Expenses: What is to be Done?

  by Phil BC (@averyps) Socialist Party on Sunday, 7th February 2010

  Elliot Morley, David Chaytor, Jim Devine. As Labour MPs go they're cards aren't they? It's not enough that they've allegedly swindled the system by submitting false expense claims *and* will be in receipt of at least £30k "relocation money" when they step down, but now the right honourable members have the cheek to pursue parliamentary privilege defence to avoid court action.

  In a society where the rich and powerful are read more »

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• The psychology of Labour

  by Ben Archibald (@benarchibald) on Sunday, 7th February 2010

  John Prescott's latest wheeze to stir up some fighting spirit within the Labour ranks on his pisspoor Go4th website (looks too close to Goatse to me, and Labour coming 4th would be something to celebrate) is to run the 'we're underdogs' argument. His headline screams 'Underdogs can beat Tory millionaires' and he goes on to develop the analogy o... read more »

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• MEPs nod through £1,300 rise

  by Marta Andreasen MEP (@mandreasen) - UKIP on Saturday, 6th February 2010

  Budget committee agrees to increase the parliamentary assistance allowance in €1,500 ( £1,300 )

  A long debate took place at Parliament's Budget Committee last week about how to cover the €1,500 increase on parliamentary assistance for the implementation of the Lisbon Treaty. The discussion was not about deciding whether or not it it should be paid but just how it would be financed. The decision to pay it out had already been made by the Bureau of the Parliamen... read more »

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• Reach for your chequebooks

  by Constantly Furious (@constantfury) - LPUK on Thursday, 4th February 2010

  It may, at last, be payback time for some of our troughing MP's, when Sir Thomas Legg finally publishes his report.

  Don't hold your breath though. Sir Thomas sent out letters to MPs in October last year- more than 4 months ago - detailing his requests for repayment, and still these troughers continue to wriggle.

  More than half of MP's have already been told that they should pay large sums of money, that they effect... read more »

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• Alternative Voting thoughts

  by Jim Jepps (@jim_jepps) - Green Party on Tuesday, 2nd February 2010

  Out of the blue Labour announce they want to start reforming the voting system. Twelve and a bit years into their government they've finally got round to having a think about making a change that heads off any possibility of proportional representation.

  The Lib Dems described it as a "deathbed conversion" which I thought was a rather neat turn of phrase.

  So t... read more »

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