Tag Archives: Conservative Party

The Yin and Yang of Labour Politics

Posted on May 18, 2015 by Guthlac

Two weeks after the most devastating defeat for the Labour party in living memory we have entered a time when all concerned will be eating their babies, by which I mean they are trying to elect a new leader.   … Continue reading →

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The view from the Shire

Posted on May 10, 2015 by Guthlac

So I have now recovered from  disturbed sleep patterns and a hangover thanks to the election. It is time to take stock of one of the bluest of blue shires in England.  The first thing to say is that as … Continue reading →

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We All Got It Wrong….

Posted on May 8, 2015 by Guthlac

Well the votes have been cast and counted and the one lesson from the general election in the United Kingdom is that everyone got it wrong.  Whether there is any great virtue in being found out along with anyone else … Continue reading →

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When is a majority not a majority? When it is not a Tory majority.

Posted on May 4, 2015 by Guthlac

Things are starting to get really rattled in the Tory supporting press this morning. They appear to be waking up to the fact that for the fifth general election in a row the Conservatives will not win an outright majority … Continue reading →

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It’s the NHS stupid

Posted on May 1, 2015 by Guthlac

95 Billion pounds is a lot of money – an astonishing amount of money only thing is it is not enough and not enough by an awful lot – maybe 8 billion maybe 30 billion – who really knows?   … Continue reading →

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Show me the money…

Posted on April 26, 2015 by Guthlac

In just under two weeks time the phony election will be over and the real election will start as the parties and their leaders lick their wounds whilst starting to work out how they are going get enough votes together to … Continue reading →

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Known Unknowns

Posted on April 20, 2015 by Guthlac

As the general election campaign grinds on it is very easy to think that it couldn’t get any worse but it could it really really could (the Americans don’t vote for a new President for almost another two years yet … Continue reading →

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I agree with Nick

Posted on April 12, 2015 by Guthlac

“The inclusion of Plaid Cymu and the SNP in the televised leaders’ debates, the progressive aftershocks rippling through these islands following the independence referendum and the growing realisation that the Palace of Westminster has ceded its sovereignty to people, mean … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 340 – SNLP

Posted on April 4, 2015 by Guthlac

So the verdicts are in from the debate on Thursday evening and everyone is agreed that Nicola Sturgeon was the winner.  Suddenly the metropolitan papers have once again remembered that there is more than one country that makes up the union … Continue reading →

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Project LV One – Day 336 – Mucking around in the filth – General Election No 1

Posted on March 31, 2015 by Guthlac

So we are official off and running and already it would seem that both of the main parties are trying to pretend that the last five years haven’t happened or rather their version of the last five years.   Now … Continue reading →

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