[…] Arsen Avakov ran for election as Kharkiv city mayor, but was defeated by Hennediy Kernes, a local business rival. The election was accompanied by widespread accusations of vote fraud, and the result was hotly contested. Electoral fraud is so commonplace in Ukraine that there is a nationally-known slang term for it – ‘Buckwheat’ – […]
[PDF file]: […] 1992 ‘with a smaller electorate’; and that Labour’s defeat was down more to their voters either voting LibDem or abstaining than defecting to the Tories. The Labour vote fell by 2.6 million. The conclusion they draw from this is that Johnson’s popularity was exaggerated. (p. 137) What they do not do is adequately consider […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* Banksters The final paragraph of a portrait of the Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey in The Times on 14 July was this: The technocrat has also been thrown into the political […]
[PDF file]: […] that used in Germany and France. A considerable argument develops in the cabinet about these, led by James Callaghan who, by appealing to the trade union bloc vote and trade union-nominated MPs, sees taking an oppositionist stance as his opportunity to destroy the chances of Barbara Castle (who is promoting the proposals) succeeding Harold […]
[PDF file]: […] an echo at the other end of the political spectrum.38 This is seriously misleading – and spectacularly disingenuous. No-one denies that millions of Labour voters declined to vote for Jeremy and/or Labour. What is at issue is why this happened. Among the contributing factors was the extraordinary Jeremy-is-anti-semitic campaign which was run through the […]
[…] of the single market — which is not a trading relationship, but a legal enforcement of big business’s rights — are maintained, possibly renewed every year by vote of Parliament.’ 6 Ovenden’s analysis is the more plausible to me and may explain why ‘fund manager’ Jeremy Hosking is preparing to spend getting on for […]
[PDF file]: […] of the dominance of the humanities. 14 or 15 or or or 16 despairs and concludes, as he predicted in 2015, that ‘If . . . the vote is to exit, it will be no good saying afterwards that “we didn’t understand what we were voting for”, the repeated complaint made by Eurosceptics about […]
[PDF file]: […] was one of the considerations which led Murray to suggest, in September 1948, that part of the costs of the unit should be transferred to the secret vote. In addition, the move to the secret vote would enable a more flexible use of money, and For significant detail on the events surrounding the massacre, […]
