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]: […] 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 […]
[…] an echo at the other end of the political spectrum.38 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 […]
[…] the floor lies with the EU. Which creates a curious dilemma for me. I think the EU is absurd, a menace in many ways, and I would vote for UK withdrawal – were it not for the fact that the threat posed by the banksters is greater than that posed by the Eurocrats’ delusory […]
[PDF file]: […] bang up to date. Many of us older hands in politics may struggle to keep up to speed with the latest techniques employed to convince people to vote; but many voters are, in my opinion, being persuaded to vote against their own best interests. The use of the internet to penetrate and cater for […]
[PDF file]: […] 71 of the 104 years since 1918. Although it suffered shattering defeats at the polls in 1997 and 2001, it has made a triumphant comeback, increasing its vote in 2005 and at every subsequent General Election. It returned to office in 2010 as senior partner in the Conservative-Liberal Democrat administration and since 2015 has […]
[PDF file]: […] of just over 33% of votes cast, with ‘fringe’ parties and independents making headway. Get In tells how victory was achieved by maximising the efficiency of the vote, delivering it where it was needed rather than piling it up where it would make no difference. Social media played its part, micro-targeting individual voters rather […]
