Browsed by
Category: Betting

Politics is back

Politics is back

I was wrong. Prior to the UK election I took the view that Starmer and Sunak were little different. The Blair settlement of the last 30 years would continue, and the UK would bob along in its sleep inducing political mediocrity. Then Labour came into power. Since 4 July a different Labour has emerged, one that is more socialist, aggressive to groups it doesn’t like such as farmers, or the old and who it targets for taxes. A Labour which…

Read More Read More

What the late Queen really thought about Boris Johnson

What the late Queen really thought about Boris Johnson

The latest revelation about the prorogation scandal confirms Boris Johnson isn’t fit to lead anything. Quite rightly our current King was furious about how his mother was treated, Prince William was similarly furious about Boris Johnson’s role in ‘the greatest act of constitutional vandalism since Charles I sent soldiers to arrest five members of the Long Parliament’, I cannot see either asking Boris Johnson to form a government. TSE

Why do I keep doing this?

Why do I keep doing this?

We were out before 7am on polling day, putting one final leaflet out in my village. I’ve been at it for an hour, the fine drizzle is starting to get annoying, and then I cut a finger on someone’s gate. As I did my best not to bleed onto the leaflets, I did stop and ask – why do I keep doing this? On Thursday I stood as the Liberal Democrats candidate for the Central Buchan ward on Aberdeenshire council….

Read More Read More

Voters don’t care about identity

Voters don’t care about identity

Another election, another failure for the Democratic party. Donald Trump is president elect and the whole world is crossing its fingers that we’re not heading for four years of turmoil and upheaval in the international order, particularly Ukraine. However, this is not the time to write about that, we don’t know enough yet about what Trump will do this time around to make an informed judgment, we can only hope that some of the rhetoric during and before the campaign…

Read More Read More

Split ticketing is still real

Split ticketing is still real

From this side of the pond it felt like America was hyper-partisan and that split ticketing would be a thing of the past despite the polling showing otherwise but as we can see it still exists. I’ve not had deep dive in to the senate races but there should be some useful information to be gleaned on what sort of candidate they need to win the White House in 2028, after all this wasn’t a Trump landslide and as Bob…

Read More Read More