[…] as far as I can see. 24 or 25 7 This is seriously misleading – and spectacularly disingenuous. No-one denies that millions of Labour voters declined to vote for Jeremy and/or Labour. What is at issue is why this happened. Among the contributing factors was the extraordinary Jeremy-is-anti-semitic campaign which was run through the […]
[…] an echo at the other end of the political spectrum.6 This is seriously misleading – and spectacularly disingenuous. No-one denies that millions of Labour voters declined to vote for Jeremy and/or Labour. What is at issue is why this happened. Among the contributing factors was the extraordinary Jeremy-is-anti-semitic campaign which was run through the […]
[PDF file]: […] the ultimate plausibles party, had won a second landslide in four years. Now, Tony Blair and his imitators in other parties could not even win the popular vote in a referendum that would surely have been a walkover 16 years earlier, had there been one on Britain joining the Euro. But the vote in […]
[…] an echo at the other end of the political spectrum.6 This is seriously misleading – and spectacularly disingenuous. No-one denies that millions of Labour voters declined to vote for Jeremy and/or Labour. What is at issue is why this happened. Among the contributing factors was the extraordinary Jeremy-is-anti-semitic campaign which was run through the […]
[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 58 The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee Simon Matthews The death of sixties broadcaster Simon Dee in August produced a crop of obituaries that commented on his brief period of fame and the claims he subsequently made about his career’s demise. Most of […]
[…] Arsen Avakov ran for election as Kharkiv city mayor, but was defeated by Hennediy Kernes, a local business rival. The election was accompanied by widespread accusations of vote fraud, and the result was hotly contested. Electoral fraud is so commonplace in Ukraine that there is a nationally-known slang term for it – ‘Buckwheat’ – […]
[PDF file]: […] 1992 ‘with a smaller electorate’; and that Labour’s defeat was down more to their voters either voting LibDem or abstaining than defecting to the Tories. The Labour vote fell by 2.6 million. The conclusion they draw from this is that Johnson’s popularity was exaggerated. (p. 137) What they do not do is adequately consider […]
[PDF file]: […] that used in Germany and France. A considerable argument develops in the cabinet about these, led by James Callaghan who, by appealing to the trade union bloc vote and trade union-nominated MPs, sees taking an oppositionist stance as his opportunity to destroy the chances of Barbara Castle (who is promoting the proposals) succeeding Harold […]
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