Indicators for next year not too bright. Its times like these that I am glad of a secure job and index linked pension, and of course £350 million per week spending money to look forward to
Unemployment is at just 4%, the lowest it has been for decades and the economy is still growing albeit slowly, I know diehard Remoaners are doing a raindance for a rerun of the Great Depression once we leave the EU but there is no sign of it yet!
Indicators for next year not too bright. Its times like these that I am glad of a secure job and index linked pension, and of course £350 million per week spending money to look forward to
Unemployment is at just 4%, the lowest it has been for decades and the economy is still growing albeit slowly, I know diehard Remoaners are doing a raindance for a rerun of the Great Depression once we leave the EU but there is no sign of it yet!
Theresa May’s dire election campaign trashed her own “brand” as badly as Gerald Ratner ruined his family jewellery firm, a leading Tory pollster and peer has declared.
In a frank analysis of his party’s performance at the polls, Lord Hayward said that the election result, plus the Brexit vote and London Mayor election, also proved that the Conservatives can never again rely on “fear” tactics.
The veteran pollster and former MP, who first coined the phrase “shy Tories” to explain the party’s surprise 1992 victory, compared the Prime Minister’s campaign to Ratner famously undermining his own company.
Interesting though the Tories still got their highest voteshare since 1992 and as Hayward says “The Tories didn’t lose the election, they lost it against expectations and only then in certain parts of the country. “In London, Bristol and the public sector towns and cities of England and Wales the Tories went backwards - heavily. “They won, not only in Scotland, but also in the south west of England, in much of the Midlands, South Yorkshire and the North East. Such are the cross flows of the election that Labour now hold Kensington while the Tories hold Mansfield.”
Mmm, some re-writing of history here? The only regions to show a Lab to Con swing were Scotland and the North-East. The results in the Midlands, Yorkshire and Wales were dire compared to expectations. How exactly did they "win" South Yorkshire? 0 seats. If he means swing to, then yes, but by those criteria Labour swept the South-east! Maybe I am being unfair, and this paragraph is out of context.
The Tories won more votes than Labour in the South West and Scotland and the Midlands and they saw a swing to them in South Yorkshire and the North East
That is a more clear exposition than the above quoted then.
In case it's of interest to anyone, the current production of Julius Caesar at the RSC is truly excellent (and the first one I've really enjoyed in ages). No big cuts in the text, and done without gimmicks, but with real insight.
Bit of Shakespeare bruv? MacBeth's your best play there. I once got roped in to play a witch when my mum's mate got the flu. Quite like the theatrics
Indicators for next year not too bright. Its times like these that I am glad of a secure job and index linked pension, and of course £350 million per week spending money to look forward to
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