Yesterday I received my voting papers for the Labour leadership and deputy leadership elections. As you can see, I haven’t got very far in filling them in. I have to say that I am very drawn to Jeremy Corbyn for a variety of reasons – several of them bad reasons! First, he is older than…
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It really is
Following yesterday’s analysis of where the signatures come from to support the e-petition on banning driven grouse shooting (see here for a mention of it in the Guardian today), here is an analysis of English constituencies separated into Conservative and Labour seats, and rural and urban seats. Conservative rural 27.5 signatures Conservative urban 18.2 …
Henry knows the Rules
On a recent trip to London, Henry (you didn’t think he’d gone away did you?) looked in to Rules restaurant. Now Rules has a very strange attitude to customer care (see here, here, here) and although there was initial friendliness from some of the waiting staff someone looking more senior started closing curtains and…
‘Class war’ against driven grouse shooting led by rural Tories
Those who oppose the excesses of field sports are often written off as ‘lefties’ and ‘townies’ who know nothing about the countryside, as opposed to ‘real country people’ who do. I’ve never seen anything to back up this oft-heard statement, and in another life I used to point out to people voicing it that the…
Data for the next post (at 1pm)
ENGLAND ALDERSHOT CON 19 ENGLAND ALDRIDGE-BROWNHILLS CON 8 ENGLAND ALTRINCHAM AND SALE WEST CON 11 ENGLAND AMBER VALLEY CON 25 ENGLAND ARUNDEL & SOUTH DOWNS CON 26 ENGLAND ASHFIELD LAB 30 ENGLAND ASHFORD CON 19 ENGLAND ASHTON UNDER LYNE LAB 10 ENGLAND AYLESBURY CON 23 ENGLAND BANBURY CON 21 ENGLAND BARKING LAB 11 ENGLAND BARNSLEY…