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Why not Ken?

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Just for a change I shall start things off with a statement of bias, I don’t like Ken Livingstone much (from what I know of him), think he was a poor Mayor and really don’t want him back in any sort of power ever. I wouldn’t trust him as honorary mayor of a toy village consisting of 3 cereal boxes and some sticky back plastic, so this may all come across as a bit biased, so I’m really quite in the Not ken again camp. That said so far the only propaganda I’ve received for the mayoral election is from … Continue reading →

Spare a thought for Freddie

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“I suspect the quietude we are currently seeing on (the Fred Goodwin) front is down to neither side of the political debate being able to claim crowing rights in the matter…” Continue reading →

Populism and democracy

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Despite all the fun and games happening in Europe I’ve been rather quite on the matter, and am actually going to continue with that with this post. So many other people are doing a much better job of commenting all I could really add is a “what they said”. I am however going to use the EU crisis and a post about it to pose a question that’s puzzled me for years and which The Snowolf just expressed in a far more eloquent fashion than I’d manage. What the Snowolf said was: “Politicians get very sniffy about populist policy decisions, … Continue reading →