By: Dave Roberts.
Seamus Milne is no authority on anything. He still hankers after the ” positive ” aspects of the Soviet Union. This topic is being debated on Left Futures at the moment and I have no doubt that the...
View ArticleBy: NT
Since 1945, not one government has ever won more than 50% of the vote. Going by the logic today’s left is using, Labour had “no mandate” to establish the welfare state post-1945 because more people...
View ArticleBy: andrew adams
I agree that, like it or not, the Tories were elected under the rules of our electoral system and so can be said to have a mandate for their policies. It’s also fair to say that they won the argument...
View ArticleBy: pongogogo
Well said. The welfare system is broken. It serves no-one well, either claimaints or the taxpaying masses. Anyone can see this. Therefore it needs reform. The Tories have outlined one type of reform...
View ArticleBy: Richard Gadsden
“Since 1945, not one government has ever won more than 50% of the vote.” Um, the 2010-2015 coalition had 59%.
View ArticleBy: Tomgar
The 76% argument really annoys me. It’s incredibly disingenuous to say 76% didn’t vote Tory when a huge part of that number didn’t vote AT ALL. You can’t lay claim to the assent or dissent or people...
View ArticleBy: stewart
ed millibands selfish greed for power let cameron and his cronies in,the labour party stay at home supporters handed alot of marginal seats to the torys,and last,if the labour party do not think that...
View ArticleBy: ski
Thank you! Finally some sense. On the guardian message boards every time the govt. comes up this fact gets trotted out by people and critics of the FPTP who were missing pre-election, miraculously...
View ArticleBy: ski
Thank you! Finally some sense. On the guardian message boards every time the govt. comes up this fact gets trotted out by people and critics of the FPTP who were missing pre-election, miraculously...
View ArticleBy: dmra
The argument that the Government has no legitimacy might have less traction if the Tories weren’t planning to introduce restrictions on strikes on the grounds that low turnout means there isn’t a...
View ArticleBy: Strategist
It suits too many in the Labour & Tory parties to draw attention away from the fact that it is first past the post in single member seats that is the anachronism. Of course an elective dictatorship...
View ArticleBy: Chris
Mandate is irrelevant. The reason to oppose austerity is patriotism. It’s not in the national interest.
View ArticleBy: douglas clark
I am quite interested in the reasons that Labour lost in South Britain. It seemed to me that Cameron managed to frighten Milliband into a position from which there was no recovery possible. Milliband,...
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