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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
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 […]
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The View from the Bridge
[…] 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 […]
Bullingdon Club Britain: The Ransacking of a Nation by Sam Bright
[PDF file]: […] again, he seems to have a somewhat rosy view of the past. The Conservative Party did not begin electing its leader until 1965, when MPs got to vote; and 1998, when ordinary party members got a vote – and even now those members have to choose from candidates chosen by the MPs. As for […]
The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: […] take the pound out of the European exchange rate mechanism.44 After that recession Blair and Brown had no need to embrace Thatcherism: the electorate were going to vote for them whatever they proposed. The three big economic messes which the electorate took notice of between 1970 and 2007/8 were caused by Conservative governments; and […]