Tag Archives: General Election 2024

General Election Reflection No. 1 – Loveless Landslide

Posted on July 7, 2024 by Guthlac

So here it is the first attack on the incredible Labour victory – attack the percentage of the vote. Now I don’t remember the Daily Mail complaining about the size of the percentage of the vote cast over the previous … Continue reading →

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The Morning After…

Posted on July 5, 2024 by Guthlac

There are many takeaways from the election and I no doubt may get around to some of them in due course. Today I think it is a day of renewed hope which will undoubtedly be dashed as the weeks and … Continue reading →

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Six Days to Go…

Posted on June 28, 2024 by Guthlac

The time has come. With 6 days to go before the General Election, this will be for c 80% of the vote cast as c 20% has already been cast via postal voting, what do I think is going to … Continue reading →

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Declining Power…

Posted on June 26, 2024 by Guthlac

I could have called this post Continuity and Change but I didn’t. Instead, having slowly baked in the warm Suffolk sun, I’m really not a sun person, I went with this title. It is also apt for the election as … Continue reading →

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Ever Decreasing Circles…

Posted on June 21, 2024 by Guthlac

What? This can’t be true! A nice summer’s day in this miserable June. Well yes it can be true and it was the perfect day to slowly criss cross rural east Leicestershire. The election seemed in another world and there … Continue reading →

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Blue Moon…

Posted on June 16, 2024 by Guthlac

I see the bad moon a-risin’ Creedence Clearwater Revival Today, the latest supa dupa poll in the Sunday Times suggests that the Conservatives will be down to 72 seats – and most of those seats will have a majority of … Continue reading →

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Cascade Failure…

Posted on June 14, 2024 by Guthlac

Many years ago when I used to write computer programs I used to create errors that caused Cascade Failure of the whole system. Not very good programming and usually the only way clear the error was to use the great … Continue reading →

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Super Defeat or Super Majority…

Posted on June 13, 2024 by Guthlac

May 28th, 2010 was a very important day in my life. I didn’t know that at the time but it was. This was the day that the iPad went on sale in the UK and I bought one just after … Continue reading →

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The Unfulfilled Promise

Posted on June 9, 2024 by Guthlac

So next week is manifesto week and it will be the moment that the economic with the truths will be revealed in all their misleading mendacity. This is not a political point it is just a statement of fact. No … Continue reading →

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Black Coffee…

Posted on June 8, 2024 by Guthlac

There are days when you image life cannot get any sillier…then it does. This morning a hapless Conservative minister, Mark Harper, tried to polish the turd that is Rishi Sunak’s D Day appearance and disappearance as not a ‘serious blow‘. … Continue reading →

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