“Over four years, the SNP will have spent £950m on a set of distorted priorities and hand-outs that give more to the rich than to the poor. “If you have two children and earn £100,000 then you will have gained £802 per year from the SNP. “But if you have two children and you earn £15,000 then you will have gained just six pounds and seven pence.

Andrew Marr has got this blogger all wrong!

A very good summation of many people's feelings on the coalition, and why the issue of university tuition fees is a red line for so many members.

Max Atkinson blogs some interesting stuff about the nuts and bolts of public speaking and presentation. This week, he's covered Nick Clegg's and Vince Cable's speeches to Liberal Democrat Conference - noting in particular the audience's physical response in the form of clapping.

There is nothing good about the problems surrounding the Commonwealth Games. However, the fact that the athletes' village appears to be a midden is nothing compared to reports that child labour is being used on the site.

Andrew's right - some people didn't find what they were looking for. Who were they?

Andrew writes an excellent Blog on a wide variety of topics. This particular topic - Housing and the building of new housing in the current economic crisis - is important because the housing issue is becoming obscured by the many other issues which are currently in the forefront of the news.

"We will end the detention of children for immigration purposes" So says the Coalition's Programme for Government on page 21 and this is what I expect to happen, despite today's story in the Guardian saying the Government is climbing down on this

Stephen Glenn follows up on his earlier post about human trafficking with a Belfast story bringing it close to home on the new Liberal Democrats in Northern Ireland blog.

Stephen says we should walk away from the Coalition if we can't persuade the Government to sign this directive.