Tag Archives: Election

How Labour’s 2024 General Election Campaign Failed

In the 2017 and 2019 general elections Labour under Jeremy Corbyn received 11,386,624 and 10,269,051 votes respectively. In the 2024 general election Labour under Keir Starmer received 9,704,655 votes (33.7%). Corbyn and his party’s performance in 2019 was lambasted, one of the worst ever. His policies were derided. Keir Starmer removed Corby’s supporters from positions… Read More »

Government mandate and democracy

Governments always claim they have a mandate for their policies as specified in their manifesto. (They will also claim a mandate for policies conjured up subsequently for which they do not have a mandate!)They do have a mandate as seen from definitions in dictionaries, etc. However these mandates are not democratic mandates since a majority… Read More »