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Vince Cable has apparently now offered a "clarification" on child benefit according to the Times , claiming that it was all a slip...

As I pointed out before, Brent Liberal Democrats didn't vote to spend more on repairing broken pavements and roads when Labour proposed ...

Iain Dale has an excellent post on the Liberal Democrats' policy of means testing child benefit. As he says, neither Darling nor Osbor...

I see the Conservatives are already deploying the George W Bush defence for George Osborne's unimpressive performance in the Chancellor ...

Here is Dawn Butler at a Sickle Cell Society event. the Sickle Cell Society is based on Station Road, NW10 (just outside the ward boundary o...

It seems that the Tories' latest poster campaign has faced an instant rebuttal campaign . Very old fashioned of David Cameron to resort ...

Adam Bienkov at Tory Troll relates that another complaint has been made against Bertha Joseph .

Here is a picture of Dawn Butler at her first engagement as the newly elected MP for Brent South, a NUS Conference for black students.

Professor David Colquhoun has highlighted a recent EDM defending homeopathy . Liberal Democrat MPs are the group with the second highest pro...

Here is a photo of Dawn Butler laying a wreath at the Harlesden Jubilee Clock during the 2006 Not Another Drop March. She is accompanied by...

The Brent Musuem is holding a major exhibition on Ernest Trobridge between Febraury and September. Trobridge was a remarkable suburban archi...

The final pre-election photo of Dawn I intend to post is this one during one of her first walkabouts as a candidate. This took place in Harl...

John Healey has made an announcement on public sector housing that I am still trying to get my head round. The most important part from Br...

This is a picture of Dawn Butler with the then Bermudan Prime Minister which she gave me before she had been selected as Labour's candid...

A quick note on Bertha Joseph. She apparently remains as a member of the Executive of the London Mayors Association, as you can see from the...

I thought that in the run up to the General Election, I would post some images of Dawn Butler, the Labour choice to be Brent Central's n...

Now that Bertha Joseph has finally been removed from the Fire Authority as unfit, it made me wonder about her other posts. For example, she...

Just caught up with the remarkably self serving letter that Bertha Joseph wrote to Boris Johnson immediately prior to her ditching from LFEP...

Wikipedia provides more on the colourful Mike Romanov (or is it Romanoff?) here .

The Wembley Observer reports that Cllr Bob Blackman is standing down . The report quotes his Conservative colleague John Detre as saying: ...