Here we are – at the end of what I’ve found to be a depressing and disheartening general election campaign. Part of this has been watching the Left suddenly psyche themselves up about the prospect of taking power, all off the back of opinion polls that only a few weeks back they were deriding as […]
Archives for June 2017
The effect that multiple terror attacks have on a society: it becomes normalised more than we realise
After the Manchester bombing attack, political campaigning was suspended for several days. Each leader of the main political parties assiduously avoided trying to say anything political whatsoever in the aftermath of the attack. It was felt that any mention of anything that could be interpreted as electioneering would be extremely frowned upon and the politicians […]
The Lib Dems are being crushed under the wheels of this presidential style election
There has been a lot of speculation as to why the Lib Dem campaign has failed to launch. I stick to my assertion that it got off to a good start, but I think it was always doomed for many reasons. One which I didn’t expect to see arise has been the degree to which […]
The Left are falling for the exact same trick that they were calling out only a couple of weeks ago
A meme that one saw all over Twitter a few weeks back, posted always by left-leaning folk, was a quote from that well-known leftie Peter Hitchens, saying the following about polling: “Opinion polls are a device for influencing public opinion, not a device for measuring it. Crack that, and it all makes sense.” This was […]
Last night’s BBC leadership debate reviewed – who won and who lost?
I’ll be brief here. Last night after the debate, I said that Amber Rudd came out the winner while Paul Nuttall was the loser. People on social media were outraged. What debate was I watching? Rudd won because by putting in a strong performance at a time when one was necessary (and up against a […]