By Denis Campbell
BREAKING: The Bosch motor alternator plant in Miskin, near Cardiff is closing. After teetering on the financial brink for 18-months, an official announcement is due shortly. With the loss of Hoover last fall, South Wales is down to Ford’s motor assembly plant in Bridgend as the remaining big manufacturing hope.
Cue the media tsk-tsk machine. [...]

Last night Japan’s ruling party lost control of the Diet by a 3:1 margin.  Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown escaped the UK and spent the weekend in Afghanistan. Is this where we are? The PM must go to a war zone to get some peace? As Japan goes, so goes Labour in 2010?
Mr. Brown has [...]

 
By Denis Campbell
The ultra racist British National Party (only native born white Brits can become party members), had an Adolph Hitler in the 1930’s moment and captured two European Parliamentary seats (a body they wish to see destroyed but whatever means needed) for the first time ever in UK-wide elections. 
Geert Wilders far right Dutch nationalist [...]

By Denis Campbell
Only party leaders and media pundits seem to care that 27-member countries of the European Union head to the polls Thursday through Sunday of this week to vote for the entire 736-member European Parliament. The UK and indeed Europe faces the lowest recognition election in the history of voting. “Election, what election, there’s [...]

 
By Denis Campbell
Her Majesty is “displeased.” 
Queen Elizabeth II normally stays above the fray, so much so that “displeased” is a cause for alarm bells across Westminster and the land. Most monarchs in Europe’s labyrinth of Constitutional Monarchies serve largely “ceremonial” roles. Although most can still take the Draconian step of dissolving a dysfunctional government, they [...]

 
By Denis Campbell
Welsh Lib Dems are meeting this weekend in Cardiff for the annual Welsh conference. While the Lib Dems have a chance to tap into voter distrust of both Labour and the Tories, can they overcome voter apathy and provide a real 3rd party choice?
At this point there is little to distinguish them from [...]

Would George W. Bush stand for pointed questions on live TV from Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama or John McCain if forced weekly to endure a forum such as the UK’s Wednesday noon mosh pit a.k.a. Prime Minister’s Question time? This is a place where every member of the House, in theory, can ask questions of the PM and his government.  [...]

Oh no wait, wrong country and wrong election. There is only one local election contest and not the bi-weekly slogging in the US Presidential primaries. Labour must lick its wounds this morning as projections show Gordon Brown’s party in 3rd place behind the Lib Dems (Liberal Democratic Party in their worst showing in 40 years. Comparisons [...]