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sorry couldnt think of anything else. gideon in charge of the economy..

I watched Brown's speech with my ten year old and told him that I vote labour because of the values of the party and people like Brown ...and that he must never forget that even with his fancy private education....

I think that he understands me a bit better as he sensed my deep passion on this issue. My dad must have done that for me.

michael savage v excited about libdem gains isn't he policy....hope he is right he 'can't quite believe the deal they've got'

Riiiiiiiight must go an join the spotty boy. Oh heck it's a musical montage

That is fantastic about (ending) child detention.

Blair in his ball-crushers

Yes, that seems to be prolesworth.

Yes soph think he must join us in Pangloss corner

G'night

Yes, one of my friends works on developing world stuff for the UN tells me that Brown is much admired for his overseas leadership.

Laura Kuensberg saying on twitter that Chris Huhne apparently home secretary

Night all, need to be up and out early for work tomorrow while I still have a job (civil servant)

So you Lib-Dems will be off on the Tory thread following your Minister Tweets soon and leave us Labour lot to fester for a few years, eh?

One good tory policy - which goes against the justabout family interest - is to refocus surestart on people who have the worst life chances.

I'll be interested - both ethically and out of self-interest - to see what happens there

I'm going to need to find out about Andrew Lansley, anyway - let's all hope he's not too disastrous for the NHS

In general I approve of Panglossian optimisim

However i want to understand how it is that soph did Candide for o level when I did it for a level? Is soph so much older than me that the declining standards kicked in

LDs should realise that there will only be one referendum on electoral reform in a generation so they had better get the right system on the table.

I think they;ll be happy ro seeanything on the table - they've been betrayed a few too many times (incl Blair) to be too picky.

Good night lefties.

Child detention very good, yes.
Quattro - isn't it just a case of the depth to which you study something? Eg can do R and Juliet for o or a?

That's reminded me of all those Reader's Digest abridged novels that people used to have - wasn't that odd?

Re Surestart - I think there's a very strong argument that Tory policy will see SS become a stigmatised ghetto, and therefore underused, and then gradually phased out. One of the reasons that it has the reach it has is that it's not perceived to be 'the authorities' and therefore there's no stigma attached to accepting its services. So it gets to the least marginalised of the hardest-to-reach, at least. The most-hard-to-reach are probably realistically beyond the reach of that kind of service at all.