by The Editor | Jun 14, 2017 | Politics
It has taken less than a week for one of the casualties of the election to become apparent. Austerity is over. The long term economic plan of 2015 is as dead as the strength and stability of 2017. It would be easy to say that Labour’s success killed austerity and the...
by The Editor | Jun 14, 2017 | Politics
I think it’s safe to say that election opinion polls are no more useful than paying heed to Boris Johnson on a brandy binge, solemnly casting the runes and making wide ranging wishful but witless declarations. Theresa May made a decision to hold a snap election...
by The Editor | Jun 12, 2017 | Politics
Yesterday’s Ashcroft Poll on SNP ‘defectors’ gave this: To Labour 60% To Tories 30% To LibDems 10% So, those 60%, I think, were inspired by Corbyn’s progressive policies and thought the number one...
by The Editor | Jun 7, 2017 | Politics
Much of my writing over the last few weeks has focused on topics that I think matter in the lead up to #GE2017: gender, age, leadership, love and hate, propaganda and so on. Here I am concerned with our political system itself: democracy, defined as: . . . a system...
by The Editor | May 29, 2017 | Politics
There’s an update at this at the end. Lesson learnt – never take Labour party press releases at face value. I’ve seen a few discussions on Facebook started by English Labour supporters posting in pro-Indy forums that we should join together to fight off the Tories, by...
