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Elections
Corby by-election preview – part 2
Aug 15th
Tweet Part one of this by-election preview can be found here. In the first part, I looked at the electoral history of the constituency and the wider region. I felt that the three successive Labour victories were strange given the large Conservative population in the area. Labour does control the Council though and a commenter…
Corby by-election preview – part 1
Aug 14th
Tweet It’s now widely known that Louise Mensch has stood down as the MP for Corby. She decided to do it in order to spend more time with her family. She will also be moving to the U.S., so she can be with her husband, Peter (the manager of Metallica). So, what does this mean…
Galloway gets Respect in Bradford West
Mar 30th
Tweet So, the man who famously got dressed up as a cat on Big Brother and once made friends with Saddam Hussein has been given a position of responsibility in Bradford West. George Galloway, the former MP for Bethnal Green and Bow (Respect) and Glasgow Kelvin (Labour) won by an overwhelming majority and embarrassed the…
Democracy in Palestine
Mar 14th
Tweet It would be foolish to try and give a complete history of the Israel/Palestine conflict in a single blog post. It is one of the longest running disputes out there. Various world leaders have attempted to find solutions (e.g. that summit Bill Clinton had with Benjamin Netanyahu and Yasser Arafat), but nothing has been…
Egypt in May
Mar 11th
Tweet The Arab Spring is a hugely important (and ongoing) event in global politics. No-one can deny the effect that it has had. Leaders in multiple nations have been ousted and events in the likes of Syria show that this is probably going to continue. One of the major talking points was the resignation of…
Labour imagining things in Feltham and Heston
Dec 16th
Tweet On the night of December 15th, 2011, it was announced that Seema Malhotra had been elected as the new MP for Feltham and Heston and the newest member of parliament for Labour. This was a by-election that was caused by the untimely death of Alan Keen, who had been the MP for that constituency…
Inverclyde’s importance
Jul 1st
Tweet On June 30th, 2011, it was announced that Iain McKenzie had been elected as an MP in the Inverclyde by-election. I understand that news about PMQs and the performance of Ed Miliband is more important in the eyes of the media. However, any by-election at this time is a key opportunity to test the…
The second favourite wins the Labour leadership
Sep 27th
Tweet If the Labour leadership election made use of First Past the Post, we would have had a very different result – David Miliband would be the winner. However, they used the Alternative Vote system and Ed Miliband was elected as the new Labour leader (by a narrow margin). It’s also a good example of…
Is postal voting viable?
May 5th
Tweet Postal voting has been in the news once again recently. It is certainly a controversial issue, but it’s something that does have a definite upside. So, how was it set up? How are postal votes processed? What are the problems with it? Are there any solutions to the problems? This blog covers those areas.…
The BNP manifesto – an analysis
Apr 29th
Tweet Earlier this month, the British National Party recently released their manifesto. A video of the launch can be found here. It covers a number of subjects, including those that you wouldn’t normally associate with the BNP. They clearly realise that having a wide variety of policies means they have a chance of being taken…