European Political News

Via … er … Labour Home. I’m inclined to agree with Ken on this occasion. Whether it is true or not that he did smash it - I have no idea. Tags: ken livingstone, new labour

Following on from Mike’ Rouse’s question about catching up with blogs last week, today we’re asking about the best use of political video you have seen in the last year. In the last year, there have been protest videos, the last few months of 18DS, some interesting locally-made political videos, and the new Politalks (nsfw) video-podcast. We’d like to know what you think. I’d give my prize to some of the witty political animations done by Miss Eclectech, especially the two about ID Cards - these are older than 12 months, but still highly relevant. So I’m plumping for Tim Ireland’s video for the consultation for the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 covering demonstrations near Parliament: I’ll give a runner up to his earlier animation concerning the plight of Iraqi Interpreters: What are your suggestions? (Anything is fine - videos, animations, or the way they have been used, but please include a link where you can). Tags: video, best political video, friday free for all

via Hugh MacLeod, The Easter Bunny is nice only one day out of the year. How is he the other 364 days? Revealed: Tags: easter bunny, evil easter, the other 364 days, gaping void

Remember this one from last time around? Tags: george bush, john kerry, us election

Via Jon Worth: Have you signed oneseat.eu - the petition to abolish the Strasbourg seat? A very good initiative. The OneSeat Campaign aims to prevent the European Parliament travelling between Brussels and Strasbourg like the Court of King Caractacus, at a cost of around ?120m per year. Go there and sign. You know it makes sense. And, since you didn’t ask: Sorry. Very cruel for a Friday morning. Tags: european parliament, rolf harris, abolish strasbourg