Showing posts with label General Election. Show all posts
Showing posts with label General Election. Show all posts
Thursday, 17 March 2011

The Guardian's writers never check their facts do they? The example of Richard Seymour

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**** Too much of our politics is dominated by the discussion of class – working-class, middle-class, upper-class and so on. These terms m...
Tuesday, 25 May 2010

Idiots revisited (again)

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*** A while ago I wrote in praise of idiots about those ordinary people who don’t partake of politics: The ancient Greeks used their word f...
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Thursday, 6 May 2010

Thoughts: some hope for the future and why you mustn't vote Labour

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**** It’s a grey, drizzly day here in Cullingworth – more October than May. But the birds are singing, the badgers have crapped all over th...
Wednesday, 5 May 2010

Wednesday whimsy: Community (or Why Elections are Important)

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Yesterday got me thinking about why elections are important. OK, I hear you – what a silly thing to think about – of course elections are i...
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Sunday, 2 May 2010

Why you should vote Conservative on May 6th

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Yesterday’s Telegraph Magazine carried an extended profile of David Cameron that was a good read. However, the opening paragraphs included...
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Saturday, 1 May 2010

A brief comment from the front - canvassing in Wilsden & Cottingley

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Yesterday saw almost the final flurry of Phil Davies canvassing efforts – and where better to finish that part of the campaign than in my w...
Friday, 30 April 2010

Housing - an issue waiting to bite us all

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Two stories I’ve run across today suggest that over coming months and years there’s a really big an important issue that will bite politicia...
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Sunday, 25 April 2010

West Yorkshire - what opinion polls might mean in our marginals

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I've been wasting a little time doing some psephology - trying to get a better handle on what the current opinion polling might affect t...
Friday, 16 April 2010

Friday Fungus: "...I am picking mushrooms." - thoughts on the "Great debate"

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The glaring omission from yesterday’s “Great Debate” was any discussion of mushrooms (the suggestion that the failure to consume certain mu...
Sunday, 11 April 2010

Nick "Crazy" Clegg loses the plot

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I am stocking up the extensive cellars at Cooke Towers with essentials – canned foods, batteries, dried mushrooms, red wine and so on. I in...

Cancer: how the two-week target is a nonsense

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*** Various folk have reported – with differing degrees of indignation – on Labour’s targeting of cancer sufferers. And I’m sure others wil...
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I'm all right jack revisited....

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*** A comment Vilma McAdam, one of the “Telegraph Jury” struck me. Asked “What issue has made the impact in the campaign” this lady’s respon...
Saturday, 10 April 2010

Report from the Front - canvassing in Cullingworth

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*** Canvassing in Cullingworth today was – as it always is – a really pleasant experience. Met lots of my lovely neighbours, enjoyed chatti...
Friday, 9 April 2010

Gordon Brown Quote of the day...

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*** "I have made it absolutely clear what my views are: we cannot have people standing as candidates for the Labour Party who express t...

Do social media campaigns fit the centralised, controlling, presidential party campaign strategies?

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*** The Institute of Direct Marketing (a fine body of men and women) have commented on the emerging social media campaigns at the election....
Wednesday, 7 April 2010

Wednesday Whimsy: The Elections - introducing the characters (with apologies to Gary Gygax)

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The suggestion has been made that the General Election should be conducted in the style of a role-playing game rather than in the rather o...