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A terminal condition?

Posted in Clunking Fist, Conservatives, Economy, Elections, Kaiser Blair, Labour, Miliband on August 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

There was once a time, hard as it may be to believe now, that the New Labour movement wanted the character above to exit the stage leaving the way clear for Gordon Brown. The coup came in September 2006 and brought forward an exit strategy which saw the champion of New Labour, it’s Martin Johnson [...]

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Something

Posted in Betting, Dinner, Elections, Food for thought, Life on July 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

As it has been a good few days (or weeks) since I blogged I thought I should put something up.
I am not entirely sure what to write as life has been fairly boring since I returned from Haltemprice and Howden, however, I did have two old friends, Chris Wales and his lovely other half Nina [...]

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Work and stuff

Posted in By-elections, Elections, Life, University, Work on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Alright, so I said I would write some more stuff after (last) Tuesday…. This has obviously not happened. Why, you ask? Well it is really very simple. I finished and handed in my essays on Monday (they were not so good), I went out Monday night, I got up Tuesday and went to Hyde Park [...]

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Obama vs Clinton vs DNC

Posted in Al Gore, Clinton, Elections, Howard Dean, McCain, Obama, Oval Office on May 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »

There has been a hell of a lot of talk recently about how Clinton cannot possibly win against John McCain come November’s general election. However this evenings exit polls are posing some awkward questions for Barack Obama’s campaign. CNN is reporting that (yeah, I realise that this could be somewhat skewed);
According to early exit polls, [...]

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The Left

Posted in Comrade Galloway, Conservatives, Elections, Labour, Mayor of London, The Left, University on May 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I used to believe in coalitions. I believed that by working through our differences we could come to common ground on issues and arrive at good policy. The Left have however over the years diminished my belief that coalitions can work and this is, I believe to a point, proven in a post-local elections article [...]

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Can the Beeb get any lower?

Posted in Beeb, Elections, Popular politics on May 5, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Mike Smithson over at politicalbetting.com is mad, and rightly so, after watching the clip of the BBC’s coverage of the 2008 local elections I am stunned. How could anyone in their right mind think that this

is either an appropriate or even mature way of covering an election of any type?
I [...]

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