In which there is some serious election stuff to talk about
Published at 8:22 am on May 8th, 2010
Filed under: Political.
Despite yesterday’s post, I do still indeed live in a safe Labour seat which is still a safe Labour seat. As predicted, shifting my vote in any direction would have made zero difference to the electoral outcome. And, as I implied yesterday, we live in a country where the majority of voters don’t seem to support the agenda of the largest party, partly because, I suspect, this election has been driven by negative pressure: people voting to try to stop Outcome A, rather than to cause Outcome B.
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Keyword noise: elections, General Election, parliament, voting.
In which we cover an election result that the reality-based media seems to have missed.
Published at 6:14 pm on May 7th, 2010
Filed under: Political.
In which we predict the future, badly
Published at 8:29 pm on May 5th, 2010
Filed under: Political.
Back in 2006, there were some local elections, and I wrote what I thought at the time. It was written in what you might call a prescient situation: about a local council who had run up a huge deficit under Labour, before being taken by a Tory-Liberal alliance who co-operated to the extent of not competing for council seats. Possibly, then, like the general election after next; although things are unlikely to be that extreme.
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Keyword noise: elections, General Election, parliament, voting.
In which we praise Parliament, a very rare thing
Published at 9:01 am on May 21st, 2008
Filed under: Political.
As you’ll have no doubt read in the news, Parliament has voted against reducing the abortion time-limit. I’m pleased and amazed – for once, a political decision has gone by which has been apparently been decided on the basis of fact, not emotion.* That’s been a rare thing for the past few years. Maybe we need to have free votes more often.
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Keyword noise: abortion, birth, BUPA, Catholic, Jim Dobbin, medicine, Nadine Dorries, parliament, religion, Ruth Kelly, science.
In which we look up some rules
Published at 2:48 pm on January 7th, 2006
Filed under: Political, Media Addict.
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