SNP now control Dundee City Council

This is an update to this story. After a vote the Scottish National Party (SNP) now control the council of Dundee City. Before the council was run by a Labour/Lib Democrats coalition but after the SNP won a...

SNP closer to gaining Dundee City Council

The Scottish National Party (SNP) looks closer than ever to gaining Dundee City Council after making a deal with the Lord Provest who has just resigned from the Labour party. He has become an independent after...

Update 2: 39 killed in car bombing at Pakistan polling station

The death toll in suicide bombing at a polling station in Pakistan on Monday mounted to 39, including two police personnel and 17 children, while four children are among 14 injured still under treatment at Dagar...

NDP Candidate Jenn McGinn is Mum on Donations from Alleged Secretary Abusers ...

Although "Get to Know Jenn McGinn" is the headline on the website of the NDP candidate in the current by-election in Vancouver-Fairview, it is not so easy to get to know her.  McGinn ignored a written request...

Brown faces fresh by-election as Labour MP John MacDougall dies

It's safe to say that the last thing UK prime minister Gordon Brown needs tight now is another by-election, but it looks like that's exactly what he's getting. Labour MP John MacDougall, who represented...

Davis D-Day as voters go to polls

The election in Haltemprice and Howden is taing place today after Tory MP resigned his seat there over the 42-day detention policy. Davis resigned in order to run again, staking his reelection on the 42-day...

Henley by-election: Tories beat humiliated Labour into fifth place

Another trouncing for the Labour party in the UK, this time in the Henley by-election. The parliament seat election was to replace Boris Johnson, who resigned after he was elected mayor of London."The Conservative Party has beaten Labour into fifth place in the by-election to...

MP Davis resigns from UK parliament

Tory MP David Davis resigned from his position as shadow home secretary and will force a by-election.  He plans to make the new terrorism bill the focus of his campaign in his Haltemprice and Howden...

UK lorry drivers protest over soaring fuel prices

Some 300 protesting lorry drivers rallied at Marble Arch in London. Vehicles displayed placards and and honked horns - a call to lower the duty on fuel for hauliers by 20-25%. In Wales, hauliers rallied in support...

Labour suffer massive by-election defeat

Yesterday's all-important by-election in Crewe was a complete disaster for UK prime minister Gordon Brown. he saw his Labour party lose with a shocking 17.6 percent swing toward the Tories. Everyone is watching...

Tories hoping for by-election coup

Today is the big day in Crewe here in the UK. A by-election in this traditional Labour stronghold is set to be a bellweather for whether Gordon Brown will be able to reverse his declining fortunes. If the...

Poll blow to PM

With rising fuel and food cost, falling house values, lack of affordable mortgages and not fully compensating all of the low paid work force, the British public has good reason to be angry with the Government........

Gordon Brown faces new 10p tax rebellion

"GORDON BROWN was warned last night that he faced a second election disasterunless he made further concessions in the row over the abolition of the 10pincome tax band.In the wake of Labour’s worst local election performance in 40 years andBoris Johnson’s historic triumph...

Ex-Tory MP Spink defects to UKIP

The UK parliament now has its first UK Independence Party member of parliament (MP). Up until now the UKIP has only had a presence on the European Parliament in Brussels, and the UK has several UKIP MEPs (members of the European parliament). The aprty is centred chiefly...

British Columbia: New TOP COP "Teatless"

By Barry Artiste, Now Public ContributorMeet the Honourable John van Dongen, once again another "Former Dairy Farmer " and British Columbia's New Solicitor General and Minister of Public Safety and TOP COP for...

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