Tag: Boris Johnson
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Democracy 2.0: Understanding the failure of democracy
If democracy is a perfect system, then why is it failing those at the tip of the voting process? Can this political system be saved from potential extinction? Is it worth saving?
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The Party Line is………Open Season
The political campaigns of both sides of the European Union referendum debate used increasingly low methods to achieve their objectives, to the point where the referendum became a very ugly campaign. Party divisions were magnified, mud was slung and no subject was untouched in the rush to win the vote.
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The Party Line is……….Exit Strategy
We came, we saw, we voted and we left. In the tumult of the hours that followed the result, that decision was cross-examined with the voraciousness of a person questioning his identity. Had we changed so much? Had we been so eager to leave that we had become something dark and twisted? What was next…
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The Party Line is…………Decision time
Friday’s Britain will be a very different place to Thursday’s one. The political shockwave will reverberate around the UK and the corridors of power in Europe, it will be a watershed moment in British politics as the nation decides its own destiny.
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The Party Line is………..Security
Security. Peace. Freedom to exist without fear of terror. Fundamental truths that exist at the very heart of good government. Fundamental truths which are under threat on an almost hourly basis.
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The Party Line is………..Fear
Like it or not, we live in a world which is shaped by politics. We may not see it or come into direct contact with it, but it is always there lingering in the background of our lives. When we receive our pay packets we are experiencing politics, when we shop at a supermarket we…
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London Elects a New Mayor: 2016
For those who don’t know, the City of London was a city built on many rivers and waterways. In point of fact over 21 rivers and tributaries flow in and around what is now the main metropolis of the United Kingdom.
The Whitehall Whisperer 