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Between Scylla and Charybdis
Lord Ashcroft’s 16 constituency polls today confirmed that the national opinion polls are correct (if anything, the swing is larger in traditional Labour seats), and Labour and the LibDems are likely...
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How the Lib Dems blew their chance
Lib Dem Mental Health investment by Liberal Democrats, on Flickr.Forgive me, for I have sinned: I used to be a member of the Liberal Democrats. Looking back, it’s tempting to think I must have been...
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The SNP would have won 221 seats in England and Wales
The 2015 results if the SNP had decided to stand in England and Wales, too.The SNP’s huge victory in the General Election saw some truly incredible swings. It made me wonder what would have happened if...
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The Unionist tuition fees
Demo Lition 10.11.10 by Andrew Moss, on Flickr.It’s a well-known fact that Scottish Labour MPs played a crucial part in imposing tuition fees on English students, feeling safe in the knowledge that...
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The future of English politics – and the Lib Dems
placard.It’s now abundantly clear that English politics is a mess (to some extent this applies also to Wales, but not to Scotland and Northern Ireland because they have quite separate political...
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Only the Whigs can save England now
Whigs' Vault.I don’t normally blog about English politics, but the political turmoil south of the border is creating havoc up here, too, so here are a few modest observations and a possible solution....
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The irrelevance of the main political axis of the 20th century
This is the world we all grew up in. The red circle is the large left-wing party (Labour in the UK, Socialdemokratiet in Denmark, SPD in Germany, The Socialists in France, the Democrats in the US,...
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Will a new Centrist Party make the same errors as the People’s Vote campaign...
Photo by Sylke Ibach English centrists are perhaps getting closer to taking the plunge and setting up a new Centrist Party, inspired by Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche. Such a party would unite the Lib...
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If the SNP won’t act without Westminster’s approval, we should infiltrate the...
Photo by Florence Ivy Why were Labour and the Lib Dems in favour of a Scottish Parliament in the 1990s? Because they had plenty of members and voters who believed in Scotland – including quite a few...
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It’s not the uniform swing, stupid!
When I moved to Scotland almost twenty years ago and started watching election night programmes, I was surprised at first by their focus on the uniform swing. I then realised that it had been a very...
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