The FT offers a useful map charting the five Tory MPs who have migrated from marginal Northern seats to more safe Southern constituencies.... doing the 'chicken run'.
Not a great way to inspire local Northern Tory party activists.... but then again, perhaps they should have expected the entitled privileged wing of the Tories to cut & run once things got a little difficult.
Wouldn't it be funny if they lost those 'safe' seats too....
80 years ago, against a sizable force, who held the physical high ground, brave individuals climbed from the water onto the beach, and up that high ground, to free people from fascism (Nazi forces).
I find it ironic and sad, that 80 years later, fascism is taking root in America, as a convicted felon who supports isolationism, racism, and Nazis, is one of the leading Presidential Candidates.
Michigan used to be a safe bet for Democrats, but Trump’s 2016 campaign did a number on changing the state’s electoral question.
And today, Michigan is somewhere where small shifts can mean a lot. Low turnout with this voter group, extra enthusiasm with that one – small things like this add up in a big way.
Wait, now the Tories work out that you don't win elections by pandering to your own extreme wing? Reform are doing well not because anybody likes them but because the Tories have demonstrated themselves to be so fundamentally unserious about governing that those Tory voters who can't stand Labour have nowhere else to go.
I'm up to 2016 in my Google photo backup/deletion project. 🤪 Just found photos from that year's DragonCon and I'd forgotten about this cosplay. It was an election year and I thought this would be funny (this was when I thought Hillary would win). I'm seriously tempted to make this sign for 2024 and put it in the yard. #StarTrek#Election2024#Cosplay#DragonCon
“A claim that nearly half of private school pupils would leave the sector if a Labour government levied 20 per cent VAT on their fees is “too high” and “not statistically representative”, the consultants behind the study it was based on have said”
What Donald Trump’s Criminal Trial Reveals About a Potential Second #Trump Administration
The latest trial revealed a lot about how Trump went about running his company and the presidency — and provided hints of how that might play out in a second Trump administration.