Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] and the Liberal Democrats backing the government. But 50 Conservative MPs rebelled, either by voting against the motion or abstaining; and in the three-hour debate before the vote they lined up to condemn the measures. Graham Brady MP, one of the senior grey suits in the powerful 1922 Committee, stated: ‘It is essential Parliament […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] the 2020 presidential election. As early as September 2020, Navarro was apparently convinced that the Democrats were getting ready ‘to steal the election with absentee ballots and vote harvesting’. (p. 209) Their plans could still have been thwarted, if only Trump had not been betrayed by so many of those around him. Mitch McConnell […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] institutional and political interests.’25 The lobby On 29 October, the day that the general election was announced, the Spectator ran a piece by a Stephen Daisley, ‘A vote for Labour is a vote for anti-Semitism’.26 Daisley describes Labour as ‘the largest and most successful anti-Semitic political party in Western Europe’ and Jeremy Corbyn as […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] Right, i.e. white evangelical Christians. The overwhelming majority of American Jews actually voted for Obama, both in 2008 and in 2012. He got 78% of the Jewish vote in 2008 and 69% in 2012. Moreover, Hillary Clinton got 71% of the Jewish vote when she ran against Donald Trump in Rubin, The Islamic Tsunami […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] GREATNESS’. (pp. 229-234) Indeed, so Christian in its achievements has the Trump Presidency been, Strang just cannot understand why the one in five evangelicals who did not vote for him in 2016 have not rallied to him since. They obviously do not know him. He is not the dissolute man he was, but is […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] failed to address the growing popular feeling against continued European Union membership. For many Labour members ‘being European’ trumped political practicalities. Marching in support of a People’s Vote wearing a ‘Love Corbyn, Hate Brexit’ T-shirt didn’t amount to a winning electoral strategy in 2019. ‘Take Back Control’ and ‘Get Brexit Done’, by contrast, suggested […]