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Last time there was a UK wide referendum the focus was on a large amount of money & it being better spent on the NHS pic.twitter.com/Dp8EoWhhJv — TSE (@TSEofPB) June 17, 2016 A lot of people, myself included, have often drawn comparisons between the EU referendum and the Scottish independence referendum, but perhaps the better comparison is with the AV referendum of 2011. The similarities are uncanny David Cameron is perceived to have betrayed his political allies by taking a…

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Embed from Getty Images   “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.” – Groucho Marx Exactly six weeks ago in my first header on the campaign from an advertising perspective I wrote “The advantages of a negative campaign by REMAIN are obvious, the unknown can be made to seem a scary place. By contrast for the LEAVERS dystopian visions are a difficult sell when the EU has been with us for…

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Birstall – what we know:– MP Jo Cox in "critical condition"– Man "slightly injured"– 52-year-old man arrestedhttps://t.co/pbBKlBPWby — BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) June 16, 2016 https://twitter.com/StrongerIn/status/743439773998661638 On the @vote_leave bus @BorisJohnson says he is going to suspend campaigning after the shooting of Jo Cox MP — Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) June 16, 2016 Both campaigns have rightly suspended their campaigns, the only focus should be on hoping Jo Cox makes a full and speedy recovery. TSE

Take a deep breath.  The scent in your nostrils is the dusty burnt smell of scorched earth politics from the referendum.  George Osborne has pre-launched the emergency budget he would advocate in the event of a Leave vote, to the fury of half of his own party’s backbenchers.  Dozens have already publicly declared that they would vote against it. Just as extraordinarily, the Leave camp have issued their manifesto should they win.  These policies, none of which have been through…

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Austria-Hungary does not have a good press nowadays.  It is vaguely thought of as an autocratic dysfunctional empire whose demise was unmourned.  Lands that once formed a single empire that had been ruled by the Hapsburgs for centuries are now shared between a dozen independent countries.  No one clamours for it to be reconstituted. Is this a parable for the fate of the EU?  Perhaps.  But the parable might be a bit more complex than that. For a start, Austria-Hungary…

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