Conservatives. Labour. Liberal Democrats. Scotish National Party. UKIP. Boring. Luckily, there are loads of parties standing candidates in the UK’s 2015 General Election. Here’s the 20 most interesting, funny and crazy-sounding parties, taken from this rather longer list of all ‘micro parties’. Read on: 1. (An) Independence From Europe This breakaway party from UKIP founded by […]
Could Galloway’s by-election victory have been voided like Rahman’s?
I’ve been reading the fascinating judgment(pdf) that today resulted in Tower Hamlets Mayor Lutfur Rahman being removed and barred from office and his election being voided. The judgment is long but well-written and genuinely interesting. It covers a lot of ground specific to Tower Hamlets – internal Labour party splits, vote-tampering and personation, and the use of public […]
Election Day 2015 – early afternoon update
I voted this morning a bit after 10, so now I have time to speculate about what’s happening out in the country. To be clear – I have no access to any exit polls or opnion polls since Friday — which is good, because it’s illegal to publicise them even if I did. Those last polls showed […]
Mergers and rumours – Election roundup Sunday 25 January 2015
I know I was writing about list mergers a month ago, and here I am doing it all again. Luckily there’s only one more week of this until the lists are filed and mergers are impossible, but until then there are plenty of rumours: For the past week there have been continual low-level rumours that […]
Election roundup Wednesday 21 January 2015: Part 2
(Part 1 here) Of course now, there are lists and candidates, there can be gaffes and dirt. There have already been a load of them. As soon as the Labour primary was finished, Bayit Yehudi put out images attacking the party’s candidates — running as the Zionist Camp — as being anti-Zionist, including quotes in […]