Day: 22 March 2010

Obama and Healthcare The passage of the Healthcare Bill is a triumph for the President. It shows he can do deals to get things done in the ultra balanced U.S. legislative machine. It achieves, at last, what every other modern democracy has (and a good many not so democratic);  a universal healthcare programme for its people. […]

Sleaze Back to square one it seams. All that stuff about cleaning up politics after the sleaze scandals of the Major government seems to have been forgotten. We have got to put a stop to this. Selling influence on policy is corruption pure and simple. Frightened party leaders promise new laws to clamp down on this […]