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Your options for government
6th May 2010 | 3 comments | 4 people like this
Please choose from one of the following options
Government tariff 1: Pray As You Go: Lib-Lab coalition (24 month contract)*Hung Parliament. Tories are the largest party but Lib Dems poll well. Labour are nowhere. Tories manifestly do not want a Lib-Tory coalition and Cameron rules it out. He’s playing the long game. Clegg has to stick to his refusal to work with the leader who polled lowest, so has to wait... -
Interview: Tim Archer
4th May 2010 | 1 comments | 2 people like this
Tim Archer is the Conservative PPC for Poplar and Limehouse. Why did I ask him for an interview? Well, apart from the fact that Poplar and Limehouse is my constituency, it's also a very interesting seat. Over to UK Polling Report:
Poplar and Limehouse is perhaps the most surprising seat on the Conservative target list, requiring a swing of just under 6%, the same sort of figure as more obvious targets... -
Is the Conservatives’ narrative too ambitious?
13th April 2010 | 0 comments | 1 person likes this
The Tories' manifesto was unveiled today. You can read it here. For goodness sake don't go for the high resolution one as it will probably crash your browser. At a whopping 77 megabytes / 130 pages, I refuse to believe that anyone, not even its author, has read it all the way through. But you don't need to, because, unlike Labour, the Tories have a narrative. Like all good narratives...
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Iran: the New Media Revolution?
17th June 2009 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Many countries have been in Iran's current situation: joke elections, electoral fraud that would make Mugabe think twice and a leader that thinks that ignoring the protestations of his electorate is the solution to retaining power. Once upon a time this might have worked - doubtless it has before - but not now. Whether or not this is the first new media (actual) revolution of course depends on the outcome, but...
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If You (Don’t) Go Down To The Polls Today
4th June 2009 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree
Be in no doubt, things are a little unusual at the moment. It’s difficult to know where to look for any semblance of normality, but then why would you want to do that? There is too much fun to be had gawping at the news fallout from the implosion of politics, and more recently the plastic knife backstabbings of what has become a pretty thundery Cabinet picnic. The small matter...
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