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By Mark Bahnisch on August 22, 2010
One of the interesting parallels for this campaign is obviously the British election result – and Penny Wong was right to say that George Brandis was running the same sort of agenda to try to bump the conservatives into office, [...]
Posted in federal election 2010 | Tagged Bob Katter, British election 2010, Federal Election 2010, George Brandis, House of Representatives, hung parliament, Independents, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Penny Wong, Rob Oakseshott, Senate, the ALP, The Greens, tony windsor, Tories, voting system |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 13, 2010
I have an article at the ABC’s The Drum today about the British election and its aftermath, focusing on how much change the eventual deal implies. NB: Previous LP British election coverage here. Update: Interesting piece from Seumas Milne.
Posted in Foreign Elections | Tagged abc, British politics, Coalition, conservatives, cuts, David Cameron, deficit, electoral reform, first past the post, GFC, gordon brown, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Mark Bahnisch, the drum, Tories, UK election 2010 |
By Robert Merkel on May 12, 2010
As ABC news reports, David Cameron as PM, Nick Clegg as deputy PM. Guardian live blog with the latest. It’s the middle of the night, London time, so we’ll probably have to wait for their morning for a lot more [...]
Posted in Environment, Europe, Foreign Elections, Foreign policy, Politics | Tagged Conservative Party, David Cameron, Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, united kingdom |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 10, 2010
The Guardian is reporting that Nick Clegg will announce within 24 hours whether the Liberal Democrats will go into Coalition with the Conservatives or support a minority Tory administration or join a “Progressive Alliance” comprising Labour, the SNP, Plaid Cymru [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections | Tagged Coalition, conservatives, David Cameron, David Miliband, economy, electoral reform, first past the post, GFC, gordon brown, Greece, hung parliament, Labour, Lib Dems, Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, pact, Plaid Cymru, PR, recession, referendum, SNP, Tories, UK election 2010 |
By Mark Bahnisch on May 7, 2010
Clearly, the results of the UK election are inconclusive – Labour doing much better than expected, and the Liberal Democrats worse, with the Tories falling short of a majority. Similarly, the regional pattern is quite varied – with Labour holding [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections, International, Politics | Tagged conservatives, electoral reform, England, first past the post, gordon brown, hung parliament, Labour, Lib Dems, Liberal Democrats, New Labour, Nick Clegg, Peter Mandelson, Scotland, Tories, UK election 2010 |
By Kim on April 22, 2010
The British media and conservative establishment is throwing the kitchen sink at the Liberal Democrats, in an attempt to contain their surge in support [previous discussion on LP here]. The Daily Mail has gone feral, the Murdoch tabloids have gone [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections, Markets, Polls | Tagged capital, Conservative Party, debates, democracy, election debates, hung parliament, IMF, Kenneth Clarke, Labour, leaders debates, Liberal Democrats, Markets, Nick Clegg, Polls, Tories, UK election 2010 |
By Kim on April 20, 2010
Liberal Democrats leader Nick Clegg’s performance in the first of three televised debates in the UK election has become something of a game changer, leading to a surge for his party, now ahead of the pack in one poll, and [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections | Tagged campaign strategy, conservatives, election debates, electoral system, first past the post, gordon brown, Guardian, House of Commons, leaders debates, Lib Dems, Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, Polls, seats, televised debates, UK election 2010, UK politics |
By Mark Bahnisch on February 26, 2010
There’s been a bit of word play on another thread about John Quiggin‘s discussion of the coinage of the term ‘Agnatology’ to describe “the study of the manufacture of ignorance”. There are resonances between his diagnosis of the political right [...]
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