Tag Archives: SNP

Jeremy Corbyn didn’t win anything

Posted on June 10, 2017 by Guthlac

I know that this is probably not the thing to point out today but despite a  huge surge in the proportion of people who voted Labour (10% increase in the percentage of the vote is a remarkable achievement but Labour … Continue reading →

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A Nicola Murray Momment

Posted on March 16, 2017 by Guthlac

So the Conservatives have been found with their fingers well and truly caught in the cookie jar. Today they have been fined by the Electoral Commision for misreporting / overspending on the last General Election.  The nub of the offence … Continue reading →

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May the Games Begin

Posted on March 12, 2017 by Guthlac

“…Are you going to say that my job will go because you will not have an arrangement with the United Kingdom?…’ Ian Duncan Smith “…It’s just utter bollocks that it will it should take ten years…” Lawrence Tomlinson Friday 22nd … Continue reading →

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Standards

Posted on January 18, 2017 by Guthlac

Yesterday the British Prime Minister made a speech about Brexit which I thought set out the Britain’s position on their relationship with Europe going forward.  I could not see the continuation of membership of the single market once I had … Continue reading →

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Jeremy Corbyn is the New Prime MInister – you should never say never….

Posted on September 27, 2016 by Guthlac

So the election in the Labour party is over and Jeremy Corbyn has been reelected with a larger majority.   He has now put the Labour party onto an election footing with an expectation of a new election sometime in … Continue reading →

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Second Thoughts

Posted on June 26, 2016 by Guthlac

Having slept on things I now have a better sense of where Britain is after the most monumental 24 hours in political history for an awful long time and I have to say it is clear that no one really … Continue reading →

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Is this how we want history to remember us?

Posted on September 3, 2015 by Guthlac
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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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