Plus: May’s first PMQs. Splash! Olive trees in view. Plosh! Ministers reshuffled. Splurge! Cameroons fired. Whoosh! P.S: Time for another dip in my Spanish pool…
A further graft from the remnants of Labour and the LibDems might be the best way of preserving the Union and providing an alternative government to the SNP.
The final result probably won’t differ much from what we expected a month ago. But even small differences matter.
People listened to John Major when he was responding to hecklers.
Most produce results that are more or less what a reader of opinion polls and other electoral data might have anticipated a few months in advance.
Politics is “a noble calling”. And in praise of Abraham Lincoln, Edmund Burke and Louis Armstrong.
Major’s success was the polling companies’ failure. This time, Cameron must deliver more.
“So you don’t arrive at a decision because you’re a barrister and therefore you favour the bar or because you’re a solicitor and therefore you favour the solicitors’ firms.”
7.3. 25-35. 1992. And – last but not least – 9.