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Yes, break up the banks (but you can go a bit further than that)
Ed Miliband has set out Labour’s new proposals for reigniting competition in the banking system. Under this plan, the Big Five banks would be forced so sell several hundred branches each to two new...
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The Tories make their umpteenth blunder on benefits
News that the Conservative Party is considering the inclusion of cuts and means testing of several benefits said to the elderly in their 2015 manifesto is definitely music to the ears of a power hungry...
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Same-sex marriage: time for some sense
As Conservative backbenchers conspire to defeat reform of the House of Lords, the Liberal Democrats’ other pet project continues moving towards the legislation books. Same-sex marriage is facing...
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The Co-operative Model: The New Economy?
In 1945 the UK Labour Party was swept to power on a landslide majority, the first majority socialist government the country had ever seen. The People’s Party undertook a programme of mass social,...
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Green Party Leadership News: Part 1
As promised earlier, The Political Idealist is covering and reviewing the Green Party leadership and deputy leadership election. Though, of the two-thirds of readers who are in the UK (hello to you all...
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Tax and Spend
The Fabian Society has warned Ed Miliband that the majority of the public are against tax rises, and that Labour must abandon any spending rises in order to avoid a second term of opposition. Now this...
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Dear reader: some thoughts on blogging
Dear readers, supporters, friends, comrades, etc., It has been one month since I first put hand to keyboard and launched The Political Idealist. I must say that I was sceptical about the progress that...
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Osborne should go (…and dog bites man)
George Osborne is in trouble. Until this year, he seemed to have magical properties, with bad news reflecting off him and on to his colleagues. For a Chancellor who was pushing through a programme...
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On the morality of cash-in-hand
A row has emerged after a junior Government minister, David Gauke, claimed that paying tradesmen such as plumbers in cash is “morally wrong” as it is apparent that they offer discounts for cash...
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Mitt Romney v Barack Obama: a British perspective
In the British press, you can rely on daily updates about the US Presidential Election. It can be rather funny watching conservative newspapers such as the Daily Telegraph attempting to promote Romney...
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