Comment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 24th October, 2012 by sonofstan
And more…. The Guardian discovers that middle-class people are nicer than working class ones. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/oct/26/middle-class-leftwing-working-poll Seriously, take a look at...
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Things are very bad at the Guardian. The rumour is that it will soon become the first UK daily to do a Newsweek and abandon print altogether.
View ArticleComment on Memory and forgetting in left politics… by WorldbyStorm
This is getting a bit like a Robert Anton Wilson/Golden Horde song… ‘the first Trotsky clone ended up with an axe… the second Trotsky clone ended up with a dagger… the third Trotsky clone is sitting...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 24th October, 2012 by WorldbyStorm
I would very much like to know the basis for ‘class’ designations ascribed in that poll. Is it the ABC nonsense that we find often used in polling here which is essentially marketing categories? In...
View ArticleComment on Memory and forgetting in left politics… by WorldbyStorm
That reminds me of what a friend of mine in the WP said to me many many years ago when we were canvassing… ‘Stalin and Trotksy never lived in Kilbarrack’. It’s simple, perhaps a little glib – though in...
View ArticleComment on Interesting take on the state of the ULA from the CPGB by...
I’m presuming they’re some sort of a joke – no?
View ArticleComment on Soviet Accident Prevention Posters, c.1920s by sonofstan
‘Memory and forgetting in left politics’ would fit this post equally well as a title.
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 24th October, 2012 by sonofstan
The poll does go by ‘ABC nonsense’. To be fair, it’s the Grauniad’s headline and interpretative strategy that is most offensive, not the stuff Kellner is quoted as saying.
View ArticleComment on The CLR Political Quiz …Number 8 …. by irishelectionliterature
After I give out the answers next week, I’ll do a post on the electoral record of the CPI-ML. They were never a registered party for elections so it can be tricky to track candidates.
View ArticleComment on The CLR Political Quiz …Number 8 …. by irishelectionliterature
Oh and congrats to Sligo. I gather one of the players donned a Chelsea kit and a John Terry facemask later on in the celebrations.
View ArticleComment on What is 14% of 13% ? …… That Red C Poll by greengoddess2
It’s not thinking we need, it’s FEELING what it means.
View ArticleComment on What is 14% of 13% ? …… That Red C Poll by LeftAtTheCross
Of course, i don’t disagree whatsoever, I was only saying that SF are contaminated by more than simple Left/Right concerns in the minds of older voters at least. As you say, their social democratic...
View ArticleComment on What is 14% of 13% ? …… That Red C Poll by LeftAtTheCross
Nessa, ever done a Myers-Briggs personality test? We need thinking and feeling, and a lot more besides. Your point is substantially correct though. I keep an eye on the Social-Europe site (and kudos...
View ArticleComment on What is 14% of 13% ? …… That Red C Poll by BroadLeftBrowne
Its not impossible after the next election http://www.politicalcompass.org/ireland2011
View ArticleComment on What is 14% of 13% ? …… That Red C Poll by Irishelectionliterature
That 1.82% thats around what the greens got at the last election. Thats the amount of ‘loyal’ labour voters out there!
View ArticleComment on What is 14% of 13% ? …… That Red C Poll by Garibaldy
Just out of curiosity, what’s the lowest level Labour has achieved in elections in the last say 30 years? I would imagine it makes the results of this poll look somewhat iffy indeed, even allowing for...
View ArticleComment on What is 14% of 13% ? …… That Red C Poll by PaddyM
6.5% in the 1987 election.
View ArticleComment on What is 14% of 13% ? …… That Red C Poll by sonofstan
It’s kind of meaningless though: the total sample size is 1000 or thereabouts, which means 130 people declaring their intention to vote Labour. 14% of that is about 19 people. You really can’t...
View ArticleComment on What is 14% of 13% ? …… That Red C Poll by irishelectionliterature
4% in an MRBI poll in I think 1986.
View ArticleComment on What is 14% of 13% ? …… That Red C Poll by doctorfive
An interesting thing about FF, ‘going forward’, is they have the jump on other parties to shape shift a bit to meet the changing times. Will be interesting to see how much of their local election field...
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