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Last chance saloon?

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The only way out is through Since 1997, the UK has had, if you include Andy Burnham, who may or may not be elected unopposed as Leader of the Labour Party, and, therefore, PM, nine Prime Ministers. Of those, only five have won a General Election – the public’s trust, …

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Political meanderings

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And the government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from this earth There’s an old saying that if voting changed anything, they’d abolish it. As an aside, I think Ken Livingstone used it as the title of his autobiography. Reading the news these …

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Trouble at the top

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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us Stop me if you have heard this before. We have a Prime Minister who, two years in to his Parliamentary term, is more unpopular than his …

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European vacation

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I’m glad to see you back. I thought you were gone forever. Nine years ago, 33 million adults in the United Kingdom went to the polling station to vote in the European Union Referendum. The turnout was 72% of the electorate, one of the highest in recent years. There has …

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Peace in our time?

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Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? Smile, they said. Because things could always get worse. So I smiled. And lo and behold, things got worse. There are …

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Night of the long knives

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And the government by the people, for the people, of the people shall not perish from this earth So it came to pass that the blue hue the UK political landscape turned in 2019 was diluted last night with shades of yellow, green, that wishy-washy pale Reform blue, and red. …

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