[PDF file]: […] of measures designed to clean up after the financial crisis, those US politicians who received greater contributions from the financial services industry were statistically more likely to vote for legislation that transferred wealth from taxpayers to bankers.’4 All together now: no shit, Sherlock! Bank of England official says: ‘Too big to fail’ produces ‘the […]
[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]: […] Government to ban Donald Trump from entering the country. During the debate of the motion, speakers cited Trump’s ‘repeated anti-Mexican comments.’6 No surprise there then. Sadly, the vote was largely symbolic and mainly an attempt to pressurise Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto 4 See the report by ‘the largest global employment and labor law […]
[…] the female member of the Gang of Four, I wondered? Who could possibly quibble with that reasonable-sounding voice when the Foreign Secretary appears barely old enough to vote? But then I read Climbing the Bookshelves by the former Labour Cabinet minister who helped launch the short-lived SDP in 1981. Sure enough the wise words […]
[PDF file]: […] coup’ that had failed to remove Corbyn. He had backed Owen Smith in the subsequent leadership selection. As Shadow Brexit minister he identified with the well-resourced People’s Vote campaign for a second referendum, pursuing that against Corbyn’s wishes in the run-up to the 2019 election.11 The author writes: Of course, in the final months […]
