On the 4th July 2024, the UK held a general election. Here are my notes and links …
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Where did the votes come from?
I think these are very powerful, a sankey diagram showing where the 2024 votes came from, by YouGov using Flourish as the visualisation tool.
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Democratising the EU
The CTOE has published a manifesto of demands for democracy; we have examined those European Parties with manifestos for the European Parliament elections this year and have scored them against our 10 demands. The results are published on the CTOE blog site, The European Party Manifestos: Who is Afraid of Democracy? Overleaf/below, are further comments…
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Border checks, finally
On the 30th April 2024, the UK introduced physical inspection for imported goods from the EU. This has been delayed five times due to an unpreparedness of the agencies and a fear of the economic consequences with price rises and shortages predicted. The EU have been conducting these checks since 1st Jan 2021. There is…
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EU Citizen? Vote!
Some EU citizen’s residents in the UK will be able to vote in the upcoming #EuropeanParliament elections. The infographic below, shows which countries are offering to permit this, and how they mean to make this happen. Some will offer postal votes, some will organise polling stations in the UK and Estonia is offering internet voting….
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Platform Socialism
James Muldoon has written a book, Platform Socialism: How to Reclaim our Digital Futures, reviewed here, and was invited by the “Different Class” programme to join a seminar discussing it. When I first heard of the book, and read reviews I wasn’t impressed. A lot of what he said has been said before however on…
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Brexit and GDP
This isn’t going well. “The Office for Budget Responsibility on Wednesday said its long-running prediction is “broadly on track” to show a 15% fall in trade and a 4% reduction in the UK economy’s potential productivity compared to if the UK had stayed in the EU”. Here are some notes and links …
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Measuring Political Donations
I have been to a couple of Campaign Lab “Hack Days” and picked up a project on measuring political donations. I decided to take an innovate, don’t invent approach. Here are my notes …
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Political Donations Q4 2023
I attended a Campaign Lab Hack Day and decided to look at the political donations projects. I then downloaded the Electoral Commission stats on donations for what looks like Q4 2023 and done some quick charts, I’ll put my spreadsheet up once I tidy it up. The Tories have collected a shed load of money,…
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EP Elections 2024
A note on the political manifestos of the EU parties.
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Britain & sick pay
While considering motions to go to GMB’s National Congress, I and my comrades considered sick leave and sick pay. Some of the saddest stories I have from my time acting as an accompanying rep come from people who have been long term sick and thus suffered a serious decrement in their income.
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London, Sadiq Khan & Brexit
Sadiq Kahn, the Mayor of London commissioned and released a report on the impact of Brexit on London. conducted by Cambridge Econometrics. This report was discussed at the London Assembly Economy Committee; I am trying to get the minutes or better the video recording. The Mayor issued a press release, on the report, entitled, New…
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Down the rabbit hole
I am not sure where this started but I have known about Professor Danny Dorling‘s work for a number of years. He has written a book and authored a white paper called variously Shattered Nation or Shattered Britain. I watched the launch of AEIP’s joint report which he authored, “Brexit: A failed project in a…
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Booze, weights and measures
The government have been consulting on weights and measures; to their chagrin the vast majority of those consulted want to keep grams and metres but they have decided to allow wine to be sold in pints, a measure enjoyed by Churchill.
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Capitalism Divided
I am reading this, by Geoffrey Ingham and making some notes. At the moment, i.e. where I am in the book, he is examinimg why the British state is not acting as the executive committee of the [industrial] bourgoisie. As ever, here below or overleaf are my links and notes …
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