I liked this poll of voting intentions from Survation published at the weekend, based on a large MRP survey:
As everyone reading this blog will know, I am not excited by that mass of red, but I am happy about three things.
Two bands of yellow are pretty big, and the LibDems and SNP are going to be the real opposition parties for the next five years, like it or not.
And I love the fact that there is so little blue on there.
Just one seat in Sc0tland.
None in Wales.
And everywhere you can crisscross the country without touching a blue seat on the basis of that prediction.
This country - by which I really mean England in this context - feels just a touch less hostile as a result.
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What does it say about Count Binface?
https://www.countbinface.com/manifesto
I like that…..
I could certainly get behind #17 and #22:
17. minsters’ pay to be tied to that of nurses for the next 100 years
22. MPs to live in the area they wish to serve for 4 years before election, to improve local representation
I like the first, a lot
I am not sure about the second
@Kim SJ and Richard
In the USA it varies from state-to-state but in Florida you must be a permanent resident of Florida for six years before you can run for the US Senate or the US House of Representatives.
Double plus ultra good!.
With respect to the map – the local election results Shropshire point to a total collapse of the tory vote. My guess is they will lose there as well.
It would be funny if it were not so close to the truth.
10 I pledge to build at least one affordable house
Which would be one more than the Tories have built in the last 14 years.
19 To combat the UK’s increasingly wet climate, all British citizens to be offered stilts
This will be government policy if Reform ever get power. Their answer to climate change (which of course they deny is happening).
Ruth Davidson, who was a professional sound-bite, photo-op, opportunist politician has said Farage would only join the Conservative Party over her “cold, dead corpse” (Sky News).
Ruth Davidson’s proposition is absurd. Modern political parties were created in another age, as representatives of a definable interest; a unified community of electors, representing, typically ‘land or capital’, and ‘labour’. These constituencies and loyalties no longer exist. Political Parties are essentially snake-oil operations of closet entryists, representing nothing but their own narrow cabal, trying to trick the public that they are ‘one of them’. They represent nobody but their empty quasi-corporate shells, for sale to whomsoever will offer support and resources to continue spinning their sordid tale.
Political Parties are not representatives of eternal verities. They are not worth anyone dying over; save those who resort to cheap, gross exaggeration. Ruth Davidson represents the politics we have long ago decided to abandon – as worthless.
The great Hillaire Belloc once said “Always keep ahold of nurse, for fear of finding something worse.”
Just as individuals who find themselves in unhappy personal situations often go from bad to worse simply to escape their current plight, the same has happened in politics: populations let down, even betrayed by the status quo can run to the arms of populists and grifters and find out just how bad things can get.
So let’s maybe not do that. I’d take a thousand Ruth Davidsons over one Nigel Farage.
Although I largely agree with your excellent post, I’m afraid the very idea of having Ruth Davidson take any further part in Scottish politics gives me the dry boak.
I’m very happy to see Survation’s map has Scotland coloured in my favourite hue (politically speaking)