Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Within my mind Age: 43 Quote: Originally Posted by DracoS Well it seems the people decided they want out of the EU. The fact Jo Swinson and all the Change UK MPs lost is very telling. Yep. I accept at this point that UK overall wants Brexit. Though...
2020 election– If you care abouttradeandspending, then Biden’s victory may turn out to be good news. If you care abouttaxesandred tape, then Biden’s victory may turn out to be bad news. But I thought the biggest election takeaway is thatthe left did not do wellin congressional races...
everybody else. People blamed the Prime Minister for calling the referendum in the first place. They blamed the leader of the opposition for not fighting it hard enough. The young accused the old. The educated blamed the less well-educated. That complete meltdown was made even worse by the...
Time for a EU turn on Brexit, Park Lane, London People’s Vote meetup before march Wahay! I say, as a biased-against-Brexit Remainer and non-Tory but who, nonetheless, is keen to heal the divide and find a way to work out why our differences of opinion have become so polarised. Su...
Remain were anticipated to win until early results from North East England suggested that Leave had performed far better than expected, with this pattern replicated throughout the country. This event was repeated somewhat in the U.S. election of that year, which saw Donald Trump win several key...
Midsized UK businesses turn sour on Brexit (Financial Times) 13.10.2018 Government advises certain companies to consider moving headquarters out of UK in no-deal Brexit | The Independent (Independent) 11.10.2018 Japanese groups look to follow Panasonic out of UK (Financial Times) 16.09.2018...
What was the impact of Brexit on the 2017 general election result? What difference did the collapse of UKIP make? And what was the relative importance of factors such as turnout, education, age and ethnic diversity on support for the two main parties? First, we find that turnout was ...
but the issues of the Poll Tax was a far greater election liability even if she had done the eventual U-turn. Yes the Maastricht Treaty might have been stalled but not killed it off, so would Thatcher have tried to pull the UK out of the EEC/EU, I doubt it myself, by late 1990 ...
but the Turkish President paid no heed to the same. It would be pertinent to point out that after Turkey’s October 2019 invasion of Syria, Britain had stopped sales of arms, but said it would not be providing new export licences for weapons which may be used in military operations in Sy...
And finally, age. The generational divide on Brexit has been common knowledge throughout the campaign, and is apparent in the demographic data, even if only weakly. Had turnout been higher among younger people its influence would have been even greater, but as is usually the case, there was...