The popularity, in the General Election, of the UK's first post-EU manifesto
The election result: thoughts on its implications After the excitement of the night of Thursday 8th June and of the morning of Friday 9th June, there are a number of myths starting to circulate about the election and its meaning. Some, with their own agendas’ of course, are trying to claim that it’s a vote against leaving the EU, especially by ‘the young’. The claim that the result was a vote against leaving the referendum result doesn’t really stand up to scrutiny, not least
Labour Party manifesto: failing to adequately nurture the foundations of a free and egalitarian soci
A bit confused perhaps? With less than week to go, there is still time to examine key issues related to the Labour manifesto. As an overall document, a fair summary might be to describe it a ‘mixed bag’. It includes some genuinely radical ideas. Others that have the germ of a good idea buried within them but the proposal itself is clumsy at best and at worst counter-productive. While other proposals are just not possible. For example, as-long-as Labour believes it can have an
