Somehow, finally, it’s the last week of campaigning for the general election. In previous weeks/months, I written about how the British debate has failed to pick up and explore in any detail what the UK’s relationship with the EU might/should be. Today I’m swinging the focus around to the rest of the EU. The prompt […]
A couple of interesting polls this week help to illustrate UKIP’s situation at the moment. The first, a YouGov poll on media bias, repeats a survey from last year about how voters see media coverage of the different parties. As last time, UKIP is seen as having a much more negative bias against it than do […]
So we now have most of the major manifestos for the General Election. None of them – possibly bar the LibDems – give me much cause to change my mind about the continuing failure of British politicians to talk about the detail of European integration. UKIP’s effort – released today – is a case in point. On one hand, it’s very […]