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Al Gore: When Prophesy Fails.

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Back in 2006 Al Gore made the following statement: “ And politicians and corporations have been ignoring the issue for decades, to...

Planetary Extinction: When Prophesy fails

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I changed the tag line to my blog recently. Now I’ve changed it back again. I had changed it to the a leading quote from a ...

Parish Councils are Dying. So What?

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This is the last in a series I’ve posted on how a new party could gain and maintain power at the lowest level of UK democracy. That is ...

Parish Councillors: Party Affiliated? Or Independent?

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Independent councillors make up the bulk of Parish/Town Councils.  At the local level, people like local independents not party apparat...

Arming the Parish Councillors

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In my last post ( HERE )  I hope I proved that any political party with the drive to improve the failing bottom tier of UK local govern...

UK Local Politics and the Low Hanging Fruit

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What if I told you that there is one tier of UK government that is so poorly supported that most (sometimes all) “elected” representatives a...

The SDP and the Brexit Party.

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During the Peterborough by-election the Brexit Party almost won. In fact many people (myself included) believe it only lost due to election ...

The Social Democratic Party - Where Now?

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In the recent Peterborough Parliamentary by-election there was a candidate whose experience and expertise placed him head and shoulders abov...

An EU Presidential Election: One Candidate in a Secret Ballot

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The election of the new EU Commission President (Ursula Von Der Leyen) made me wonder what percentage of the vote the other candidates got. ...

The EU Parliament: A Fake Democracy

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As we digest the Python-esque election of the new Eu Commission President (she was the only candidate on the ballot paper) I thought I’...

The End of the LIne? OK. I Lied.

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Much as BilloTheWisp has enjoyed his year long retirement from blogging he has now forced me (the minion who writes this stuff) to start u...