This week we feature some great new blog posts from the UK political blogosphere. It’s been a good week for politics, despite Parliament standing itself down for half-term.

As always with Labour, “work/life balance” comes before a national emergency, especially when they are on the ropes.

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Stephanie Flanders, BBC Blogs
It might not be you

The National Institute of Economic and Social Research expects British households’ real disposable income to grow by 3.3% in 2009. That would be the fastest growth in years.

Daniel Hannan, Telegraph Blogs
There’s nothing Right-wing about the BNP

As Hayek wrote in 1944 in his brilliant chapter on “the socialist roots of Nazism”, the dispute between fascists and socialists is a dispute between brothers. Labour and the BNP are, in a sense, competing for the same sort of voter: one who believes in the power of the state.

Toby Helm, Guardian Blogs
Scent of victory for Tories revives leadership hopes for Labour frontbenchers

Gone is the sense that the Tories will inevitably be in “for a decade” or “a generation” with Labour MPs languishing during their prime years in opposition. The crisis has changed perceptions of the political calendar. In many senses it is bad news for Cameron.

Edmund Conway, Telegraph Blogs
The market gives a thumbs-up to printing money

But that’s precisely the opposite of what happened this morning when the Bank of England said that within weeks it will have the printing presses roaring away. In fact, as you can see from the graph here, after the Bank announced this in its Monetary Policy Committee minutes at around 9.30, people started buying, rather than selling, sterling.

Fraser Nelson, Coffee House
If Cameron wants a second term, he needs to level with the public now

Might David Cameron be a one-term wonder? … the economic stars are aligning in a way that will make sensible Conservatives shudder. Cuts – real ones, not the type Gordon Brown accuses the Tories of – are looking inevitable.

Robert Peston, BBC Blogs
Brown’s cautious bank reforms

He is saying no to a British version of the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act, or the kind of sweeping reconstruction of the banking system that was prompted by America’s Great Depression (arguably, an important contributor to our current woes was the abolition in 1999 of the prohibition on US commercial banks engaging in investment banking – which allowed the creation of the modern, horrifically loss-making Citigroup).

Daniel Hannan, Telegraph Blogs
MEPs walk out when Vaclav Klaus questions European integration

The response of MEPs? To hoot their derision and flounce out. By a delicious coincidence, the walk-out happened just as [President Vaclav] Klaus was making his point about listening to opinions you disagreed with.

And finally … Jon Craig, Boulton and Co
A Deserved Pat On The Back?

There’s a great picture of a “love-in” between Brown, Sarkozy and Merkel. Brown cuddles up to Sarkozy, while Sarko engages Merkel in animated discussion. Priceless.

I’m not sure Europe’s leaders will be patting him on the back if his grandiose “global new deal” turns out to be a futile gesture.

Selected by John Evans