Tag: referendum
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One of the latest things to trend on Twitter is the hashtag #CameronMustGo and the celebrity chef Jack Monroe waded in with a series of tweets, the most notable one of which was “Because he uses stories about his dead son as misty-eyed rhetoric to legitimise selling our NHS to his friends #CameronMustGo”. Because he…
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A review of Don’t Take No For An Answer by Lewis Baston and Ken Ritchie (Biteback Publishing, 2011) I’ve made several attempts at writing a review of Don’t Take No For An Answer, Lewis Baston and Ken Ritchie’s review of the 2011 referendum and the ongoing campaign for electoral reform. It is a highly readable…
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I’ve written an article for Liberator about my experience on the Yes to Fairer Votes campaign (pdf).
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This is an interesting quote: Last night a senior source in the campaign for the alternative vote admitted they knew “very early on” that there was no chance of winning the referendum and that Clegg had become part of the problem: “Every time Clegg spoke about AV our polling numbers went into free-fall. We knew…
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Gavin Whenman has been expressing exasperation with Nick Clegg’s use of the word sclerotic. He has a point. Personally, I find the following quote equally perplexing: “It’s not an act of leadership to throw your hands in the air and let a thousand flowers bloom.” Who was it who originally talked about letting a thousand…