Philip Johnston (no relation, to my knowledge) in this morning’s Telegraph claims that the Euro election results were people saying ‘a plague on both your houses’ to the Tories and Labour. It might be worth pointing out to users of this tired Shakespearianism that the same electors at the same time, voted the Conservatives overwhelmingly [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘UKIP’
May 30, 2009
Election advice from the Telegraph
There’s a long editorial this morning, advising readers that ‘a vote for Ukip is a wasted vote’. I think I’ve made it fairly clear that I agree with that sentiment and the Editor’s stated reasons for holding it. Some people might think it a bit odd, though, when it has often seemed throughout 23 days [...]
May 27, 2009
Euro-elections 2009 Part IV: Conservatives
The Conservative literature arrived only yesterday, some five days after my postal ballot paper. This was disappointing and might have cost the party some votes as many postal voters will have returned their papers already, without having read much from the Tories. This is a shame because, as a presentation, it’s the best and most [...]
May 25, 2009
Euro-elections 2009 Part III: BNP
The BNP is trying to soften its image. The literature I have in front of me has nice ’soft’ pictures all over it: a family with two parents and three children, two girls, one boy, all happy and smiling; three workers all in hard hats, male, various ages, one avuncular type with grey beard, all [...]
May 20, 2009
Euro-elections 2009: Part I – UKIP
A UKIP flyer appeared on my doorstep yesterday. Quite a few people who think like me politically might well be tempted to vote for them in the Euros, partly because they don’t think it matters very much, partly because they think they’re just patriotic types, untainted by sleaze and expenses. As the link below shows, [...]
