Has Theresa May Deliberately Thrown the Election?
On the 22nd April I wrote an article questioning the Prime Minister’s motives for holding a snap general election at this time. I pointed out that in the 2015 general election the Conservatives had a manifesto pledge to hold a referendum on EU membership; that they introduced legislation through Parliament in June 2015 to hold such a referendum, which was passed by an overwhelming majority in both the House of Commons and the Lords; and…
Some Thoughts on the Corbyn Phenomenon
By Max Musson: Most people from all political persuasions are both surprised and bemused by the election of Jeremy Corbyn to the leadership of the Labour Party, not knowing quite what to think. There are those members of the public who are of a more radical left-wing persuasion who will no doubt be rather pleased by Corbyn’s success and the prospect of being able to vote for a decidedly left-wing prime ministerial candidate at the next…
Mind Control and the Election
By Dafydd Ellis: They have used the same template for all elections where their chosen party and leader are promoted as strong and united, while the opposition party and leadership were being exposed as weak and indecisive. Labour in the seventies (weak and indecisive), made way for Thatcher and ‘strong’ leadership in the eighties. With growing public exasperation with the Conservatives, in the nineties it was “time for change” with Tony Blair and New Labour being promoted…
For Auld Lang Syne
By Max Musson: We are now just a week away from an historic vote which may very well result in a political separation of Scotland from the rest of the United Kingdom, and in the news we have David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the UK, apparently pleading with Scottish voters not to ‘break his heart’. During the last week we have in fact seen almost all of the ’big beasts’ of the establishment parties venturing north of…
Nationalism and Idiocy
By David Yorkshire: One of the things that has captured my attention recently has been the events in the Ukraine. The reasons why all this has happened are readily evident, of course: the European Union and the USA have joined forces (despite the public facade of mutual animosity) to destabilise the democratically elected Ukrainian government under President Viktor Yanukovych for two main reasons. The first is to install a puppet government so that the Ukraine’s…