May 1997: Labour government comes to power. Shortly afterwards, the UK’s Katrina and the Waves win the Eurovision song contest with ‘Love Shine a Light’.
May 2010: Tory-Lib Dem government comes to power. Shortly afterwards, the UK’s Josh Dubovie comes last in the Eurovision song contest with ‘That Sounds Good to Me’.
Valiantly Blogging on a Number of Matters of the Utmost Importance, for the Benefit of All!
About me
- Tom Freeman
- 1977 vintage, British, lacking in class. Tendencies towards cynicism and naivety. Intermittently GSOH. Fan of beer, cats, comedy, cake, politics, philosophy, sunshine and stuff. Bit of a lefty. I'm @SnoozeInBrief on Twitter.
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Blog archive
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May
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- Leading in Europe
- Breaking the Laws
- AV could be surprisingly revolutionary
- The new politics: rebel-rousing media
- Of all the talents
- Tories miss their cuts target by 10%
- Oona King for London
- The first cuts are the shallowest
- Topical anagram corner
- Silly and serious illustrated science
- 118 for 1922: Cameron wins and loses
- Coalition pictures
- Why the rush?
- Responsible uncertainty
- I promise I will do a proper post about economic p...
- Think locally, deny vocally
- The Laws of politics
- Turnout, unemployment, safe seats and marginals
- The new politics: unconventionally lording it
- The 55% rule may not get 55% support
- Confidence trick?
- The big, bad society
- The Thirsk man
- Congratulations and commiserations
- STOP! Hold everything!
- Sorry, but a Lib-Lab deal is a fantasy
- A modest proposal
- Mr 3.7%
- Yeah, do a deal, probably. Whatever. Whoever.
- A clear result, but no clear outcome
- A caretaker, not a squatter
- Election result leaves cats still cute and funny
- Sun front page meets Guardian front page
- A democracy is only as good as its voters
- “There are far fewer children in poverty”
- What rough beast, its hour come round at last, slo...
- The Very Model of a Modern New Conservative
- Three pinheads dancing on an angel
- I want to fight poverty. I want Labour.
- New look
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A roll of your finest blogs
- 21st Century Fix
- A Very Public Sociologist
- Amused Cynicism
- Anthony Painter
- Anticant's Arena
- Arbitrary Constant
- Arts & Letters Daily
- Atheist Ethicist
- Bad Conscience
- Banditry
- Barefoot Bum
- Between Hammer and Anvil
- Bickerstaffe Record
- Bleeding Heart Show
- Bloggers4Labour
- Bob from Brockley
- Bob Piper
- Bookforum
- Butterflies and Wheels
- Chris Paul: Labour of Love
- Cicero's Songs
- Citizen Andreas
- Coffee Shop Philosophy
- Common Endeavour
- Conor’s Commentary
- Consider the Evidence
- Contentious Centrist
- Crooked Timber
- Dangerous Idea
- David Thompson
- Daylight Atheism
- Digital Cuttlefish
- Disgusted Beyond Belief
- Don Paskini
- Duncan's Economic Blog
- Enemies of Reason
- Ephems of BLB
- Euston Manifesto
- Excuse Me Whilst I Step Outside
- Fair Deal Phil
- Fat Man on a Keyboard
- First Drafts
- Flip Chart Fairy Tales
- Freethinking Economist
- Friendly Atheist
- Gauche
- Harry's Place
- Hopi Sen
- In Search of High Places
- Johann Hari
- John Rentoul
- Jonathan Derbyshire
- Labour and Capital
- Labour Matters
- Labour Uncut
- LabourHome
- Left Foot Forward
- Left of the Line
- Left Outside
- Liam Murray
- Liberal Conspiracy
- Local Democracy
- Luke Akehurst
- Mark Vernon
- Mars Hill
- Martin in the Margins
- Maryam Namazie
- Matthew Taylor
- Mediawatchwatch
- Mick Hartley
- Middle of the Line
- Mike Ion
- Ministry of Truth
- My David Cameron
- Neil Harding
- Never Trust a Hippy
- Next Left
- Nick Cohen
- Normblog
- Obsolete
- Oliver Kamm
- Olly's Onions
- OpenDemocracy
- ParburyPolitica
- Paul Linford
- People's Republic of Mortimer
- Philosophy, et cetera
- Pickled Politics
- PoliticalBetting.com
- Poor Mouth
- PooterGeek
- Rantings of a sub-editor
- Rullsenberg Rules
- Sadie's Tavern
- Scott Adams
- Shuggy's Blog
- Skipper
- Skuds' Sister's Brother
- Small Town Scribbles
- Snowflake5
- Soho Politico
- spEak You’re bRanes
- Staggers (New Statesman)
- Stephanomics
- Stephen Law
- Stumbling and Mumbling
- Talking Philosophy
- Though Cowards Flinch
- Thoughts, Arguments and Rants
- Three Score Years and Ten
- Tom Watson
- Touchstone Blog
- Tygerland
- UKPollingReport
- Um...
- Wardman Wire
- Westminster Wisdom
- We’ll Get It Right Next Time
- Wholly Rude
- WongaBlog
1 comment:
I can add another damning statistic Tom. Three weeks after the Labour took power my car was snug, safe and ready to take me wherever I wanted to go. Three weeks into the and may car gets stolen. Strange that I have only ever been a victim of crime under the tories!
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