“In effort to fend off Reform”
As a reason for public policy, this has to be the absolute worst.
How much damage will politicians do to compete with Farage? Brexit, immigration, scrapping NetZero..the ECHR..the Equality Act…
Stupid reasons to do stupid things.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Funnily enough the views of the leader of the DUP didn't figure prominently in the BBC's reporting of the Nowak case.
Presumably he'd have to say something like "Any Burnham has shown he and his message can beat Reform but he can't beat me". What a great rallying cry for the troops.
What voters actually get is a particular outcome which political commentators then claim must be what they wanted simply because it's what happened.
To be fair she makes a compelling case for why ducks don't rule the world.
A whole 12% of voters think Brexit has been a success. And just 25% of Leave voters. Sigh.
The problem is that as things stand the campaign would have to include reference to Starmer's red lines and the fact that Labour doesn't intend to do much about Brexit.
Sadly he didn't notice this until he'd made a fortune from it. What bad luck.
It also used to be quite common, at least among those who followed it, to refer to Rugby (both codes) as football and its players as footballers.
So much this.
See also: ‘first part the post’ protects political systems from extremists