Category: Malcolm Blair Robinson

COPY OF ARTICLE ON GUARDIAN ONLINE You might find this interesting Queen should call snap election over MPs’ expenses, campaigner says. Malcolm Blair-Robinson has written to three party leaders plus the palace warning next week’s state opening of parliament may be unconstitutional Constitutional campaigner Malcolm Blair-Robinson has written to each of the three party leaders […]

Nuclear Power Stations Many people are worried about nuclear power stations. Having lived for twenty years until 1990 in sight of one when they were in their heyday, I am relaxed about NPower. Our problem is that through ducking this issue for too long we are now out of time and at risk of the lights […]

New Session of Parliament There is a Constitutional issue here. Either go to my website or Guardian.co.uk /Politics to see why.

Expenses What on earth is going on? First we have Sir Thomas Legg. Then we have Sir Christopher Kelly.Now we have Sir Ian Kennedy who is alleged to be saying that he won’t implement Kelly’s recommendations because he does not have to. What kind of farce is this? Have they still not got the message […]

Printing Money So the Bank of England has decided to go for a further, but cautious, £25bn of quantitative easing, to help the struggling economy. This was probably the right decision if you embark on this printing money road in the first place. The worry is that the cash is not filtering into the real […]

Afghanistan. Another sad report of bright and valuable young lives lost. Oh their poor families! I do so wish, as the whole country does, that this could end. From the very beginning I feared that the response to 9/11 was wrong and that the West, led by the ghastly Bush administration, was walking into an Al […]

Defining Justice Sara Payne has, following the horrific murder of her little girl, been a courageous and energetic campaigner for victim support. He work has brought real improvements. In defining justice itself we need always to remember that victims cannot be part of that process or the critical line between justice and vengeance starts to […]

Lisbon and the Tories So the Czech Constitutional Court has said the treaty is okay and the President will now sign. That will mean the treaty is ratified by all the States in the EU. Of course Cameron has to go back on the promise of a Referendum. The Treaty is law. It would be […]

Breaking up the Banks This is the right move, provided there is no hint of a so called investment arm to these new banks and they do not act as traders in the casino at Canary Wharf.  I  would retain state control of the majority of the shares. First because it is time for the […]

Labour Leadership Interesting this. The safe pair of hands, Alan Johnson, has fumbled with an unnecessary spat with some opinionated scientists over drugs. There is no point in asking for advice, ignoring it, then sacking the adviser when he complains that you have taken no notice of  his conclusions. Maybe those hands are not so safe after […]