Important. Read before voting

Nobody can deny that the Conservatives inherited a thoroughly trashed economy. Because of the incompetence of Labour it had just suffered the deepest recession in 100 years and government spending […]

Election night surprises

In a general election there are three main factors that make the floating (undecided) voter come to their choice when confronted with a ballot paper. They are: Incumbency. Voters don’t […]

Miliband in election trouble

In Great Britain opposition parties do not win elections. Instead it is incumbents who lose them. And the Conservatives have done nothing to lose this election except to go in […]

Edstone memes

Today Ed Miliband invited us all to ridicule him with his ridiculous publicity stunt. Here are some of the best responses from Twitter. Their authors have done a great job. […]

Some great Margaret Thatcher memes

  Margaret Thatcher was probably our greatest ever Prime Minister. Great Britain was in an immense hole after the Callaghan government of 1976-9. Just about every public service went on strike […]

SNP in GE15, the memes

  I have written before how with a hung parliament the SNP will hold the balance of power and so Miliband will have to accede to their demands in order […]

Some useful truths for politics

From avidly studying politics all my life and from writing these blogs I have learned many truths. Here is a distillation of a few of them: Capitalism pays for all […]

Thursday 7 May draws closer and the BBC are doing their best to fix the election. Best to switch it off. For a far more reliable understanding just read these […]

What are the Lib Dems for?

The Liberal Democratic party was formed in 1988 by a merger of the Liberal Party and the Social Democratic Party (SDP). The Liberal Party was an alliance of Whigs and free-trade Peelites and […]