[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* Banksters The final paragraph of a portrait of the Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey in The Times on 14 July was this: The technocrat has also been thrown into the political […]
[PDF file]: […] for the resolution but without enthusiasm, without optimism, without joy, and without the feeling that we were contributing to the adoption of a constructive measure.’ ‘After the Vote,’ Time, (29 March, 1954), p. 32. 26 Winter 2010 A rbenz turned to the welcoming ears of the Soviets, who obliged by sending him arms through […]
[PDF file]: […] that fits S peaking at an event just before International Women’s Day, Women and Equalities Minister Nicky Morgan MP declared that ‘women fought and died for the vote’. Ms Morgan was talking out of her arse and doing it so blatantly that it’s hard to believe it was accidental. The Suffragettes – she can […]
[PDF file]: […] riot. Eventually, the Supreme Court effectively determined the result of the election by ruling in the Republican candidate’s favour, and halting the ongoing attempts to recount the vote. Twenty-one years later, it nearly happened all over again. Except, in most ways, it was much worse. The Republican Party’s agitations in Florida in 2000 had […]
