[…] ops by the Russians;64 a presidential candidate many Democrats didn’t want, and a poor Democratic Party campaign – despite all that Hilary Clinton still won the popular vote. Illing thinks that people are overwhelmed by competing narratives about events – that right and left are in self-reflecting, echochambers of sources; and that this is […]
[PDF file]: […] are still in charge of the party. This became open when Mrs May refused to answer the question put to her by Iain Dale: ‘How would you vote now if there was a referendum on leaving the EU?’68 Meanwhile, at the Labour Party conference, Jeremy Corbyn announced that Labour’s policy would be to guarantee […]
[…] do. The formation of the SDP ensured that Mrs Thatcher won the 1983 election: forming a new centre-left party in 1981 was bound to split the anti-Conservative vote at the general election which followed. The question is: was it formed with that purpose in mind? On this the evidence is mixed. Three of the […]
[PDF file]: […] experience on her part, Mattinson lacks a certain perspective while making many of her otherwise correct points. The role of the SDP in disastrously splitting the anti-Conservative vote in 1983 and 1987 is not mentioned at all; nor are the very real difficulties for any major political party, led by even the most gifted […]
[PDF file]: […] 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’ – […]
[…] 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’ – […]
[…] was the result of the SDP’s formation: they received 25% of the votes cast, most of which came from people who were previously Labour voters. The Conservative vote stayed much as it had been in 1979. There was a ‘Falklands bounce’ for the Conservatives in the 1983 election but recent analysis suggests that this […]
[…] 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’ – […]
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[…] 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’ – […]
