Search Results for: vote
The economic crisis
[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 […]
The Two Goulds
The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right, by Oliver Eagleton
[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 […]
Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund
[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 […]
Brexit beginnings
Sailing Close To The Wind: Reminiscences by Dennis Skinner and Kevin Maguire
The View from the Bridge
[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
Reporting Trump
[PDF file]: […] enthusiastic crowd are chanting ‘Drop dead, media’ while they wait for the great man to appear. She looks around and spots a new T-shirt: SHE’S A CUNT, VOTE TRUMP. The man wearing it ‘is with his wife and three kids’.1 Support for Trump seems completely unaffected by his boasting of how he has routinely […]
Climbing the Bookshelves
[…] 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 […]