Not sure if he actually has a struggle with it tbh. He is so far divorced from it I doubt he knows what it is!
Whiskey bottles, and brand new cars Oak tree you're in my way There's too much coke and too much smoke Look what's going on inside you Ooooh that smell Can't you smell that smell Ooooh that smell The smell of death surrounds you
Yeah, there's a wide range of turnouts depending on what's at stake. Caucuses should probably be distinguished from elections, because they are require hours rather than minutes of participants' time, but they are used to decide some presidential primaries, and the number of people who vote in them is tiny. The US has any number of elections with any number of things at stake or not at stake. A really dullsville election, like ones where only city council and judges* are on the ticket, might get a turnout as low as 10%. On the other hand, Trump Biden saw the best turnout in 60 years, well over 60%. I guess a de facto referendum on the rule of law had an up side. Electing people nobody knows anything about is about as bright an idea as it sounds. It did provide the best slogan of any kind I've ever heard (in a forum where name recognition is everything), from a judge by the name of Silvestri Silvestri, who got re-elected by a landslide for decades. His slogan? "Silvestri Silvestri. A name worth repeating."
Don't forget Barry Goldwater, whose gimmick was carrying around a flask of what looked like his own piss
Yes, you heard it here first.... Liz Truss, arch-Remainer turned Brexit career-enhancement turncoat and Queen of the Pork Markets, has taken over from Frost as the UK Chief Brexit Negotiator... And it looks like the news has reached Europe...
Of course, the fact she's been cosplaying as Thatcher to try and drum up backbench support has nothing to do with her being dumped into a role where she's guaranteed to fail...
So it was a work meeting and not a party ...a work meeting with wine and cheese ...where nobody has a laptop, let alone a pen and notepad ...where Carrie and last year's bastard spawn were present ...and didn't Allegra Stratton claim the Christmas party was a work meeting?
Not a hard one to.spin. Voted Lib Dem to keep the Tory out. He has far more difficult things to explain than that, like why he has reneged on all his policies he espoused to get elected. Now that is hard to explain.
Actually it is a hard one to spin, given the original candidate Graeme Currie was unceremoniously barred from standing in mid-November for spurious reasons by the NEC, namely he liked a facebook post posted by somebody with the Palestinian flag in their profile It also has to be said that the Starmtroopers have blatantly tried spinning it as their candidate standing aside, in spite the obvious details that a.) They fielded a candidate, so they didn't "stand aside" b.) Labour picked up more than twice the votes of the Lib Dems in 2019 and six times more in 2017, so why would they stand aside? c.) Nobody told the people canvassing that they were standing aside d.) Nobody told the Labour admins they were standing aside, given they were urging members to vote for the Labour candidate ...although maybe the members did vote for the candidate, problem is that there's only 25% of the members compared to two years ago due to Starmer alienating or booting out the rest
I didn't say anything about standing aside, but the electorate decided to get behind the Lib Dems, Disaffected Tories are more likely to support them than Labour, opinion polls showed that and it built its own momentum. To be clear, I don't like Starmer, but him over any Tory. Yes please.
I did notice a week or so before the byelection the Grauniad started urging people to vote Lib Dem, which drew comment at the time based on how the Lib Dems were a very distant third in that seat in both 2017 and 2019 as well as the Grauniad finally having the Labour leader they always wanted and then shrugging their shoulders and throwing their weight behind the Lib Dems It also has to be said that there's a sense that Labour threw up their hands and decided they weren't going to fight, something which the guy they binned off has outright accused them of, and it does have to be said that for the Hartlepool byelection last year they gave up as soon as it was announced and let the Tories stroll to a win, and that's not something an opposition should be doing
