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The round up of recent events (click on the links below, and it will bring up the relevant story)

• Patrick Mercer, resigns the Tory Whip, because he did this.
• Matthew Parris says in the Spectator “Why UKIP is a party of extremists”
• Whilst elsewhere in the Spectator, UKIP is trying to become a grown-up party. Just look at Farage’s response to Woolwich
• Occasional PB contributor, Rob Ford, with Matthew Goodwin asks Now UKIP is gunning for Labour, what’s Ed Miliband going to do about it?

• Generation Boris: Britain’s youth are not just more liberal than their elders. They are also more liberal than any previous generation. One politician seems to speak their language

• Two weeks ago Michael Gove said “One of the great things that Ed Miliband has done is he has welcomed genuine intellectual thought rather than arid exercises in political positioning as part of his policy review”
•  This morning, Michael Gove wrote Ed Miliband is a blancmange in a hurricane, Labour’s leader is weak, indecisive, lacks clarity, and has turned his party into a vacuum
• As PB’s resident Trek geek, what can I say, A benefit cheat who fiddled £16,000 was caught after marrying her lesbian lover in a Star Trek-themed wedding.
• For PB’s train aficionados, I suspect this man is about to become Notorious, A man who jumped off a platform and ran in front of a departing train at a station in a futile bid to get on it has been criticised by police.
• As someone who was born and bred in Sheffield, and will soon again become a resident of the greatest city in the world, I can confirm the accuracy of this report. It’s not so grim up North: Sheffield is the happiest city in Britain

 

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