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  • Where’s Lemby? – Day Two

    Still no sign of the Lembit for President campaign. However, I do feel that I have been a little unfair. Lembit has, in fact, been preparing this campaign by raising his profile in the mass media. A winning formula, since far more members watch the telly than read boring old political blogs. Even better, he…

  • Ros Scott launches campaign

    It has to be said that not only is Ros Scott’s website quite impressive in its own right, it is streets ahead of anything any of the leadership candidates have come up with in the last two elections (admittedly, given the time she’s had to prepare compared to them, that isn’t exactly surprising). It’s uncluttered…

  • Sarah Palin: are the democrats worried?

    That’s Iain Dale’s rather improbable analysis, over a series of increasingly aerated posts this weekend, based on the fact that, erm, a lot of people on the left are talking about her surprise nomination in its immediate aftermath. Who’dathunkit? The most surprising political event in months has happened and people are actually talking about it?…

  • Ah, so that’s what they mean by “MyBO”…

    If you turned up to give a speech, and 80,000 people started waving placards at you with the word “CHANGE” on them – wouldn’t you think about possibly putting on a different shirt?

  • Just how many spoilt ballot papers were there?

    I’ve been looking at the final results of the London elections on the London Elects website and I’m confused. Under Turnout and Technical Information, it state the following: Electorate: 5,419,913 Papers counted / turnout: 2,456,990 Turnout: 45.33% Good votes 1st choice: 2,415,958 2nd choice: 2,004,078 Rejected votes * 1st choice: 41,032 2nd choice: 412,054 Blank…