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Election 2001: Lib Dems say Labour's IT strategy is not working
News The Labour Party must take a much more active role in the issues of broadband rollout, mobile phone masts and government IT procurement if it wins a second term, the Liberal Democrats said yesterday. The Lib Dems say they are disappointed by what...
[May 24, 2001, 16:11]
Finger points at Labour as Ericsson denies factory buyer story
News The Labour party was accused on Wednesday of playing dirty tricks after Ericsson denied that it was close to finding a buyer for two mobile manufacturing factories in Britain. So, with Ericsson insisting they haven't found a buyer, there are...
[May 25, 2001, 16:02]
Linux Kernel maintainer 'barred' from patents meeting
Talkback absolutely typical of the those dirty lying motherf***ing scumbags the UK's Labour Party. a small island connected to the mainland needs a bridge so Labour effectivly pay for one to be built (it was supposed to be a shared contract between govt and...
[December 9, 2004, 9:17]
Labour accused of hacking Lib Dem email
News A Labour Party employee hacked into the Liberal Democrats' email system, obtaining confidential policy information which was then leaked to the Guardian, according to a confidential Liberal Democrat memo.
[October 10, 2000, 13:03]
Capita boss quits amid Labour loans furore
News Capita founder and chairman Rod Aldridge is quitting over his £1m loan to the Labour Party, claiming it has led to "spurious" but damaging suggestions the company was awarded government contracts because of it.
[March 23, 2006, 14:05]
Lib Dems back Labour's choice of e-minister
News Despite lacking a technology background, Douglas Alexander could prove to be a successful e-minister thanks to his influential position within the Labour Party, according to the opposition Liberal Democrats.
[June 13, 2001, 15:06]
Government not doing enough to wire schools
News This week the Labour Party has been evangelising about its commitment to wiring every school to the Internet, with chief secretary to the Treasury Alan Milburn promising to have every school connected by 2002, and doubling the money spent on IT in...
[October 1, 1999, 16:58]
This is a spoiler
Talkback The reality is that the Labour Party's OSS policy has consisted of ignoring every vendor that didn't provide it with 'incentives'. Now Labour can claim, as they have done, that they've had an OSS policy in place for years (since 2004!
[February 26, 2009, 9:49]
Clarke pledges to push on with ID cards
News The Labour party has had eight years of government, with the biggest party majority in living memory and they have had plenty of time to push the legislation through. The government's identity card bill, which will not become law ahead of the...
[April 6, 2005, 17:35]
UKIP bashes software patents
News No Labour or Conservative MPs were available to comment on the matter, however when asked about software patents and the EU, a Labour telephone assistant said, "There is an election going on. The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has slammed those...
[May 3, 2005, 17:00]
Election 2001: Labour trails Web site poll
News According to performance testing from software testers SIM Group, the Natural Law and Green Party Web sites only took between two to nine seconds to download compared to 58 seconds for Labour. For a party who is dedicated to promoting online...
[June 7, 2001, 16:28]
Culture secretary unveils 'Channel 4 of the Net'
News Labour's Chris Smith announced a new government Web site, Culture Online, at the party conference in Brighton Thursday. Also in Brighton, prime minister Tony Blair announced a Labour commitment to providing one PC per every five secondary...
[September 28, 2000, 16:12]
Tories pledge to boost broadband and e-commerce
News The Tories have launched their manifesto for e-commerce and e-government in an attempt to steal a march on Labour and its highly criticised digital policies. The auction flopped with 26 of 42 licences remaining unsold," it comments on Labour's...
[April 17, 2001, 13:30]
Hairy moment for political security as emails go astray
News These are said to have included a draft of Tony Blair's speech to the Labour Party conference, information about domestic and foreign affairs, and private details about forthcoming meetings. Downing Street told ZDNet News on Friday morning that it...
[November 14, 2003, 12:25]
Election 2001: Political parties show their IT stripes
News Thu 24 May 2001 Liberal Democrat IT spokesman Richard Allan says that even if Labour does win the election, his party will push for more action on broadband rollout, mobile phone masts and government IT procurement
[May 25, 2001, 10:57]
The issues making IT a political hot potato
Comment In wealthier times, the Labour Party found in technology the perfect outlet in for its natural proclivities. We can only speak of what Labour has done and speculate on what the opposition would do, or say they will do, if they obtain power.
[August 27, 2009, 12:59]
Stephen Timms is new e-commerce minister
News According to his Web site, he has served as the honorary president of the Parliamentary Information Technology Committee and also advised Labour's information society policy forum before the party won power in 1997.
[May 29, 2002, 15:12]
Queen's speech to exclude arts Web site scheme
News The initiative was in the Labour party manifesto, and money has been set aside to develop it already," said the spokesman. The Internet venture unveiled by Smith at the Labour party conference last year was hoped to allow the nation to watch and...
[June 19, 2001, 15:29]
The politics of open source
Leader After all, the Lib Dems may have to work with either party in the event of a minority administration — and Labour has made such a mess of governmental IT that it might as well start from scratch. There is much to enjoy in seeing Conservative...
[March 8, 2007, 14:06]
Election sparks calls for cybercrime minister
News This was due to the fact that civil servants are banned from talking about party policies during an election, and because the parliamentary bill for the creation of SOCA has not yet been agreed it is still considered a Labour party initiative
[April 6, 2005, 13:30]
