I read this lovely tweet this evening: As someone who was a first time voter when Thatcher came to power, I only hope that the #YouthQuake comes true. Not all the boomers are gammon and some have been waiting 40 years for the end of ‘greed is good’. Please make an old man very happy…. Read more
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GE2019
I wonder where the milkman is?
The photoshoppers have arrived – along with the Prime Minister in a fridge……. Read more
NI GE19 (7) Predictions
Prediction is the surest way of making an idiot of oneself, but it is fun nevertheless. The predictions will be made impartially but from a Remain viewpoint. Thus, the best-case scenario is for a Remain candidate to win and the worst-case, a Leave candidate. Alliance and SDLP candidates count as a point each, SF 0.5… Read more
Surely a number one for the Classic FM chart?
Yes it’s the fugue: ‘Boris Johnson is a Lying Shit’. And in such an elegant rendition. We could at least get everyone to hum it on the way to the voting booth… Johnson’s only recourse may be to follow David Graeber’s advice for a new Tory slogan designed to appeal to the youth vote: ‘Vote… Read more
N. Ireland GE2019 (6) Voting Recommendations
Introduction This is the 6th post of this series. The previous posts have covered all five main NI parties in the order of the number of seats they are likely to win. Each post has tried to dig beneath the surface and introduce the complex world and historical context of Northern Irish politics. The seats… Read more
Brown on Corbyn
Obviously (see the poppy) not an up to date video – but I am awestruck by the incisiveness, intelligence and coherence. How very last decade… and how it is now missed. In the circumstances, Gordon Brown’s opinion is worthy of some considerable note, I suggest. Brown seems to be seriously heading towards the money out… Read more
Slag heap talking
This slogan has appeared entirely appropriately on a slag heap in Midsomer Norton in Somerset. Although he is better known as an ‘investment banker’, the Rees-Mogg wealth was of course based on the North Somerset coal mines, which was where his inherited fortune originates…. Read more
N. Ireland GE2019 (5) The UUP and Fermanagh S. Tyrone
Introduction This is the fifth post in the NI GE2019 series. The previous four are on North Belfast and the DUP, Sinn Féin and Foyle, the SDLP and South Belfast and E. Belfast and Alliance. The UUP was founded in 1905, the same year as Sinn Féin. It is interesting that Alliance and the SDLP… Read more
Saving the NHS means that we must arrange our resources not to be in conflict
Junior Doctor Emma Pencheon has managed to issue a ‘Save our NHS’ broadcast whilst travelling. This is surely an indication of how important it is not only for doctors, but for us all, to stop Tory austerity and invest in all our futures. Money, as most of us are aware, is never short. For the… Read more
The comments on Labour anti-semitism are harmful to Jews
I’m sure most readers will agree wholeheartedly with the point David Graeber is making below – but I do think we should spread it around. After all, with half a million Labour Party members, just statistically, some anti-semites will probably be among them. But it pales into insignificance compared with Conservative Islamophobia for example –… Read more