Wise and fed up
Written by Grumpy Owl
On Thursday 6th May 2021, we had a bumper crop of elections taking place across the UK, including Scottish and Welsh Assembly, Metro Mayors, Police & Crime Commissioners, as well as a Parliamentary by-election in Hartlepool, and the usual crop of local council elections. I don’t want to focus too much here on the actual […]
Written by Grumpy Owl
The current Labour council in Birmingham, elected in 2018, successfully managed to wrangle it so that rather than have ‘partial’ elections on a rolling cycle, like most other local authorities do, they only have to hold ‘full’ elections every four years with all seats up for grabs. Which means that residents of Birmingham are stuck […]
Written by Grumpy Owl
Democracy time again! On Thursday May 6th 2021, the UK public gets to exercise some democracy by tootling down to their local polling station and put a cross on a piece of paper. The electorate was spared much of this tediousness last year thanks in part to the ‘coronavirus’, which meant that elections were suspended […]
Written by Grumpy Owl
With Brexit now seemingly ‘done’, Nigel Farage starts to show his true colours again by revealing his next ‘big battle to fight’. I know that China are no paragons of virtue, but this ‘anti-China narrative’ has been simmering ever since the pandemic first broke last year, and it looks like certain ‘agitators’ are going to […]
Written by Grumpy Owl
Americans are heading to the polls today (3rd November 2020) to decide who will be their next president. It’s pretty much a straight choice between the Republicans’ Donald Trump and the Democrats’ Joe Biden. There probably are other candidates, but you’ll never hear about them in the media. I’m neither American, nor do I live […]
Written by Grumpy Owl
As you may remember, I was a supporter of and member of UKIP for a couple of years, but I let my membership lapse in April 2020, as I’d had enough of the wrangling and failures within that party. One of the few people I had a great deal of respect for within UKIP was […]
Written by Grumpy Owl
My membership lapsed in April after I lost interest in the internal shenanigans and wranglings going on within UKIP. But I must admit I was incredibly pleased to learn a couple of days ago that Freddy Vacha had been appointed as the new leader of UKIP, following the ousting of Richard Braine last year. Now […]
Written by Grumpy Owl
Up until a few weeks ago, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was being portrayed as some kind of ‘hero’ by the mainstream press. After all, back in December 2019 he and his Conservative party had won a General Election by some margin, and earlier this year he had delivered on his promise to “get Brexit […]
Written by Grumpy Owl
There’s probably a very good chance that if I ask you if you’ve ever heard of the organisation “Common Purpose”, the answer is likely “no”. Who/what is “Common Purpose”? On the surface, the statement made on their website seems fairly well-intentioned. We develop leaders who can cross boundaries. We live in a world full of […]
Written by Grumpy Owl
So the election results are in and the Conservatives have won a sizeable majority, leaving Boris Johnson holding the ‘hot potato’ that is Brexit. In 2017, I became convinced that the then Prime Minister Theresa May ran an election campaign that was designed so that the Conservatives would lose, and to hand over the proverbial […]
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