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Two weeks to go and bailing out …

We’ve now reached the ‘a fortnight to go’ point in the 2015 General Election and I have come to certain key conclusions about the campaign which I suspect may well also apply to all General Elections in history. The first is that – broadly speaking – most voters have already made up [...]

April 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

The economic facts of life

One of the weirder aspects of the Election campaign – repeatedly aired in the Leaders’ Debates on television – is the polar extremes of how those of differing political persuasion view strategies to deal with the state of Britain’s finances. The Tories have, as usual, nailed their [...]

April 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

The same old, same old politics

Party out of duty, partly out of interest, I tuned in last night (Monday 20th April) to watch The Leader Interviews: Ed Miliband at 7.30pm on BBC1. Said grillings are conducted by Newsnight presenter Evan Davis, who for some is a bit of an acquired taste. However, I am neutral on the issue because [...]

April 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

Election debate report

As a Rust commentator upon politics I felt it my duty to watch last night’s television debate chaired by David Dimbleby from Westminster’s Central Hall on BBC1 in order to bring readers my latest report from the General Election front-line. [I should perhaps begin with my traditional disclaimer [...]

April 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

Election-watch report

Monday night is a dreadful night for television-viewing, probably because the main terrestrial channels have budgeted to spend all their cash over the weekend and therefore – both because they’ve run out and imagine that people are tired of vegetating on their sofas – they transmit nothing of [...]

April 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

A disaster, but who takes responsibility?

Here’s a link to a worthy and worrying article by Jonathan Owen on the website of The Independent today, on the vexed subject of the overall cost of PFI initiatives as established under both Tory and Labour regimes – see here – THE [...]

April 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

That’s it, I’ve had enough

I’m supposed to be covering politics for this organ – and have been doing my best to keep up on a daily basis with what’s been going on in the campaign the better to do it in a General Election year – but, to be honest, with only about four weeks until 7th May I’ve begun to lose the will [...]

April 10, 2015 // 0 Comments

Election betting

So far in the electoral campaign I have read both in the Rust and elsewhere much on policies and personalities but little on what I believe to be the most reliable predictors of all, the bookies. So the editor asked me to take off my green jacket and put a towel over my head to enlighten readers on [...]

April 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

A slice of political chat

Last night I popped over to see my brother and his family to discuss a family issue and the conversation swung to the forthcoming UK General Election, specifically last week’s ‘Seven Leaders’ TV debate. The topic of the importance of voting – and the rights and wrongs of the UK political [...]

April 6, 2015 // 0 Comments

A wake-up call … but for what?

The fall-out and speculation caused by the televised ‘Seven Leaders’ debate on Thursday evening continues to dominate the news media. I don’t sense that this is a five-day wonder, either. The pundits, based upon political surveys and polls – both supposedly independent/impartial and those [...]

April 4, 2015 // 0 Comments

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