Tag: Conservative Party
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Why a “progressive alliance” isn’t going to happen, won’t work and is a silly idea
Note that for the purposes of this piece, a “progressive alliance” involves Labour, the Liberal Democrats, the Green Party and Plaid Cymru coming to an agreement to stand down in seats where one of them is deemed to have more of a chance to win it than any of the others. I’m excluding the SNP […]
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David Cameron: the long-lasting toxic waste in Britain’s politics
In the early 1950s, the Hooker Chemical Company was looking for a place to dump a variety of excitingly toxic chemical wastes, and settled upon a disused canal in Niagara Falls, NY called the Love Canal, which it promptly filled up with a touch under 20,000 tons of wastes and capped off with impermeable clay […]
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Memes won’t make young people like the Tories
It has now been almost eight months since the 2017 general election knocked on the head Theresa May’s dreams of what she, along with most pundits, had thought would be a nailed-down massive majority; with Labour’s seat gains and Tory losses removing the majority David Cameron had won in 2015 entirely and thus forcing her […]