It’s fairly packed this time, thanks to Nick Barlow. And by the way, Mr Smarty-Pants Barlow, I shall continue to defend the true number – like the mighty silver-haired one, Kilroy himself, I shall fight for truth to be returned … Continue reading →

Tim Hicks, using the BBC’s electoral calculator, again highlights how insane the current voting system is. With the three main parties on 30% of the vote each, 10% going to others, here are the results we would get: Labour 328, … Continue reading →

Labour has hinted that if France rejects the EU constitutional treaty in its upcoming referendum (as the polls suggest it might) then the UK won’t have to hold one of its own. Well, dur… Of course we won’t. If France … Continue reading →

I flatly refuse to accept this new numbering heresy. Roundup 7 (NOT 8) is here. As an extra until I find more time, check out The New York Times’ profile of Michael Howard (reg. or BugMeNot required). They seem to … Continue reading →

Superb stuff – complete with handy, easy to understand graphs and stuff – showing just how anti-Labour tactical voting in favour of the Lib Dems won’t let the Tories into power, from Cabalamat Journal. A must-read. “The Tories, on a … Continue reading →

UP now at the General Election Blog (and yes, I know it says it’s number 7 – technically it is, but meh…) Poll-wise, everyone’s got confused. What’s it to be? Various polls for various papers today have major variations, so … Continue reading →

Courtesy of Tim Ireland: Drawing the Line You’ll need sound. You’ll need to be prepared to end up simultaneously sad, horrified and angry. You’ll find it rather more difficult to defend voting for Tony Blair’s Labour party on May 5th.

Here you go – over at the General Election Blog. Lots of good stuff once again, including Chris Lightfoot explaining the methodology behind that political survey which I wrote about while drunk in my last post. Elsewhere, A Big Stick … Continue reading →

Via Robin Grant. It’s pissing infuriating, but interesting nonetheless: Political Survey 2005. The first page of results seems moderately accurate for a change. Then it goes apeshit mental. Take it, go on. Post your results in the comments if you … Continue reading →

Up now at the General Election Blog. Good stuff once again – hopefully by the end of next week I’ll have shifted some work and have time to do one myself… Some others which caught my eye today (well, yesterday, … Continue reading →

A couple of relatives of mine are Tories from a moderately safe Tory seat, so they thought nothing of this bit of suspect tactics. If this is widespread, however, it could be incredibly dodgy – and a lot tougher to … Continue reading →

If you’ve wandered past a newstand at any point today, you can’t have missed the rabid scare stories about how damn close we came to being massacred by some evil terrorist. Because, let’s face it, nearly being massacred is a … Continue reading →

Check it out, there’s some good stuff there. The following are sites I mean to check out, and are here largely for my reference. Ignore them if you like, or check them out and let me know which ones should … Continue reading →

A couple of days ago Michael Howard laid out his party’s masterplan for “The British Dream” (a particularly clunky appropriation of American political terminology). In fairness, the Conservatives have had the decency to keep their propaganda short, so for once … Continue reading →