A quick recap on last evening's European elections - in Hesse, the CDU ended up four short of a majority and with the possibility of dumping the Greens as a coalition partner for the FDP which c… (View Post)

Afternoon all :) The key to events in Gaza is going to be Egypt and what they choose to do or not do. I shouldn't think Sisi is keen on a bunch of hardline fundamentalist terrorists seeking refu… (View Post)

To change the mood a little... The German State elections in Hesse and Bavaria are very good for AfD and CDU, ok for the CSU, who seem to have lost ground, poor for the Greens and SPD and disastrous … (View Post)

Havering is very nearly Upminster !! East Ham is very nearly Barking. (View Post)

It's as always a question of money. Political parties, whether you think of them as businesses or not, need money to operate and they are now complex beasts with multimedia operations and a cons… (View Post)