And yet the unexpected closeness of the vote also means populism will live on in America. With this election it has become clear that Mr Trump’s astonishing victory in 2016 was not an aberration but the start of a profound ideological shift in his party (see Lexington). Defying expectations...
many other people moved rightward for the same reason — because they felt that was the way to defend liberal norms against the speech police, or democratic power against control by technocratic elites.
In both cases, clear wins for the victors were not picked up in advance by the pollsters. And then, in June 2016, came the entirely unexpected vote in favour of "Brexit" during the UK's referendum on membership of the European Union.Arash Barfar...
Our only means, excluding our MP’s, is via the ballot box. The mistake of too many in government is that come near the next GE a few tax cuts or scare stories about the opposition being worse will simply be enough to make the electorate vote for a bad government instead. History has...
There has been renewed talk lately of “Parliament” (meaning the House of Commons) somehow “blocking” a so-called “no-deal Brexit”, the outcome for which Parliament (meaning both houses) has already legislated, unless the Commons, in a “meaningful vote”, approves a withdrawal agreement...
IT Sunday: Athletics success flies in the face of funding levels; Brianna Parkins writes about why she is leaving Ireland Expand Count staff member Cian O'Connor (left), from Douglas Co Cork, wearing a different novelty T-shirt for each day during vote counting...
And yet the unexpected closeness of the vote also means populism will live on in America.With this election it has become clear that Mr Trump’s astonishing victory in 2016 was not an aberration, but the start of a profound ideological shift in his party (see Lexington). Defying expectations...
We have been arguing over this for three and a half years now. The public thought it was a very simple matter and told us to get on with it. We had a fractious and unhelpful Parliament until recently, which did all in its power to thwart the putting into law of the wishes...
I said at the time, the vote for Boris was probably less a vote for him in particular than is was a vote for ‘Do as you are bloody well TOLD!’ accordingtohoyt says: August 7, 2020 at 12:56 pm I’m hoping we have the same this November. “FUcking let me go back to work”...
on end. sentiment could actually drop as the market trades flat. waiting for a pullback is risky here in my opinion. the market as i write has rallied up to 2,165 today, meaning we are now up over 6% since we bottomed after the brexit vote on june 27th. i knew when we would get...