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Glad to see this blog staying fresh. We all need a healthy feast for the mind in lean times.
Food Poems: Endive, by Thomas Lux
Endive* If I mix a vegetable and moral metaphor then this pale, arrogant little leaf—its juices spare, its taste pinched and numbing—is equivalent to a rich child pulling legs off a bug, to a swaggering walk through a TB ward by a pulmonary giant. Not to mention a pathetic excuse for salad:...
If the Conservatives demand a referendum and a follow on election then they win a clear majority. If they don't then they lose. Everything else is hand waving. I expect to see many comments trying to tie the UKIP voters to positions on immigration and homosexuals and other social issues that are unpopular and extreme. I assume that those are done or encouraged by trolls from the far Left. The UKIP are not the BNP, who are socialists. They are the conscious of the Conservative Party.
Did UKIP cost the Tories a Commons majority?
The Telegraph asks the question and highlights Ed Balls' victory - won by only 1,101 votes while UKIP polled 1,506. "Jason" left a comment on ConHome listing some of the Tory near misses and the UKIP vote (on a spot check his figures look correct): Bolton West: Labour 18,329; Conservative 18,23...
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