Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[PDF file]: […] By 2015, however, its strength was also growing at the national level. In that year’s General Election it secured 3.8 million votes (12.6 per cent of the vote) and replaced the Liberal Democrats as Britain’s third party. Despite the UKIP success, the Tories did win a majority in 2015. The 2017 General Election result, […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] were met, with the exception of annual Parliaments, the process took decades. It was not until 1914 that all males over 21 won 4 the right to vote in general elections. This process of painstaking gradual reform over the best part of seven decades, also visible in the recognition of trade union rights, ensured […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[PDF file]: […] EU in practice are dismal. This has actually swayed voters in various parts of the EU to reject steps for ever greater unity and integration and to vote for a narrow nationalistic set of parties to represent their interests. Economic growth has been limp in comparison with other parts of the globe. More of […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[PDF file]: […] was a discussion about what percentage of the votes Kagame should give himself. The general feeling among his people was that he should receive 70% of the vote, because this would give the election credibility in the West. Kagame dismissed such concerns and gave himself 95.1% of the vote. Such a result demonstrated his […]