By Denis Campbell
Once again the Democrats lack both backbone and a party dictator. Like them or not, the Republican and Conservative (Tory) Parties know how to push agendas through. They sweep in, get everyone in line, whip votes, count (and punch) noses and, in record time, get… stuff… done!
Here in the UK, the Tory bro-mance [...]

By Denis Campbell
The Con-Lib bromance aka new government could feel a real strain as early as tomorrow when new Tory Chancellor George Osbourne presents the new government’s emergency austerity budget. As expected, unions, those on public assistance and workers in the public sector are squarely in the new government’s gun sights.
Not surprisingly, these groups are [...]

(UPDATED) By Denis Campbell
Even if 1/3 of the 52 LibDems flatly vote against every coalition issue or bolt for the safety of the Labour Party, the loss of those 17-18 votes means the maths still work in the favour of the Con-Lib majority. David Cameron and Nick Clegg both know this and don’t care, they’ve [...]

By Denis Campbell
In what has become an extraordinary series of post-dinner hours these last two days, at 7:45 pm this evening this was the announcement from the Press Office of Buckingham Palace:
“The Right Honourabe Gordon Brown had an Audience of The Queen this evening and tendered his resignation as Prime Minister and First Lord of [...]

By Denis Campbell
It was pundit heaven! Its audacious timing sent global media outlets into a state of LIVE apoplexy. Looking statesman-like, Gordon Brown stood before his rolling music stand outside Number 10 Downing Street and continued the Conservatives post-election nightmare. By announcing he would step down in September, he gave the LiDem leader Nick Clegg [...]

By Denis Campbell
Now what?
The only thing missing was Simon Cowell sneering and sighing last night. Welcome to déjà vu all over again. The UK seeks to one-up Florida’s 2000 election with the spectre of a hung Parliament, charges of polling site malfeasance and strict, almost slavish adherence to procedure over common sense. Big Ben chimed [...]

by Denis Campbell
“Obama for America” became the US’ 7th fasted growing business (if listed in Inc. Magazine). It fully integrated social media into all of its traditional marketing and created an Internet-based juggernaut.
UK parties, thought they were doing the same thing by “embracing” social media. Instead they mostly opened Twitter accounts, created Facebook fan pages, [...]

By Denis Campbell
On Tuesday, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown will visit Her Majesty and that will set both the election time clock a-ticking and pundit jaws a-wagging in a furious (yawn) and frenetic (yawn, yawn) 30-day race to the UK General Election finish line. To date the campaign has been… underwhelming. Forget thinking this will [...]

By Denis Campbell
Timing is everything. Cardiff Airport’s tone deaf and out of touch marketing reached yet another low yesterday with the arrival of the “Seats go on sale for faster routes to the States” e-mail. I read it and clicked the links as I had an upcoming US trip to plan.
Now, as background, some may [...]

By Denis Campbell
In three months the UK will contest a general election. Wow! Can you feel the tension build… Zzzzzzzz.
Three months out from November of 2008, US candidate Barack Obama spoke before 85,000 people at the Democratic National Convention’s outdoor football stadium. Here? The three parties reluctantly and finally agreed to their set of televised [...]