There are two competing narratives about what’s going to happen on May 7th. One, which was dominant for a while but is becoming less so, is that Labour will form the next government. It will be a minority one, but Miliband has more options in this regard, with the SNP saying they would never back […]
Archives for May 2015
Imagining life under a Labour minority propped up by the SNP for real
The right of centre press have had a field day throughout this election campaign talking about how horrible a Labour-SNP formation ruling the country would be. Words and phrases like “chaos”, “chain to Labour’s wrecking ball”, “clear and present danger”, have all been thrown around with aplomb by the prime minister as well. But what […]
A review of last night’s Question Time Election Leaders Special
First of all, as many pundits have already covered but is necessary to say again, the audience were great, weren’t they? I was worried beforehand given the quality of the questions we had at the Paxman thing a month ago, that we’d end up in “Mr Miliband, your campaign has the momentum of a runaway […]