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![GE 2024: Day 42: The Toxic Tory Party](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/283434_676c51af80464213bf2f4c08d844c6e0~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_292,h_219,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/283434_676c51af80464213bf2f4c08d844c6e0~mv2.webp)
Tony - The TDL Times Editor
Jul 3, 20248 min read
GE 2024: Day 42: The Toxic Tory Party
In this election all of the parties have set out their stall apart from the Tory party. The petulant child at a dinner party, the Tories...
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Tony - The TDL Times Editor
Jul 2, 20245 min read
GE 2024: Day 41: To Turn Out or Not To Turn Out
Voter Turnout is on a knife-edge. The electorate is genuinely in a state of general flux in terms of whether it is a good idea to vote or...
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![GE 2024: Day 40: The Election Prediction](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/283434_533eacd19b2c4e968c8830e8c236f5ba~mv2.webp/v1/fill/w_292,h_219,al_c,q_90,enc_auto/283434_533eacd19b2c4e968c8830e8c236f5ba~mv2.webp)
Tony - The TDL Times Editor
Jul 1, 20244 min read
GE 2024: Day 40: The Election Prediction
This article will attempt to predict the results of the UK General Election based on MRP polls, momentum, general trends and the...
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Tony - The TDL Times Editor
Jun 30, 20246 min read
GE 2024: Day 39: The Last 4 Days
This is the last week before the talking stops and the people get to take centre stage for this general election. The last 4 days will be...
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![GE 2024: Day 38: The BBC Activism](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/283434_5c30e1e44fb1435ab28c718bc77a1c2e~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_292,h_219,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/283434_5c30e1e44fb1435ab28c718bc77a1c2e~mv2.webp)
Tony - The TDL Times Editor
Jun 29, 20244 min read
GE 2024: Day 38: The BBC Activism
The national broadcaster, paid for by the taxpayer through the license fee, is part of the problem that dominates the UK. The hierarchy...
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![GE 2024: Day 37: We Need To Talk About The Media](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/283434_4bedc4b672684d859f53af95c782edb8~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_292,h_219,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/283434_4bedc4b672684d859f53af95c782edb8~mv2.webp)
Tony - The TDL Times Editor
Jun 28, 20246 min read
GE 2024: Day 37: We Need To Talk About The Media
The TV and radio media have been really difficult to watch and their actions show suppression, bias, wilful blindness and are incapable...
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![GE 2024: Day 36: What Isn’t Mentioned; How This Will Cause A Shock Next Week](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/283434_e7f8392d87f947ba9dfae5fdc6ff3d18~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_292,h_219,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/283434_e7f8392d87f947ba9dfae5fdc6ff3d18~mv2.webp)
Tony - The TDL Times Editor
Jun 27, 20247 min read
GE 2024: Day 36: What Isn’t Mentioned; How This Will Cause A Shock Next Week
The silence of really important issues barely discussed, if at all, is incredibly worrying. The debate between the two leaders last night...
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Tony - The TDL Times Editor
Jun 26, 20247 min read
GE 2024: Day 35: Week 5 Round Up
This last week has seen the campaign get more spicy for Reform, Labour seeing their vote share dip by around 5% and the Tory party...
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Tony - The TDL Times Editor
Jun 25, 202410 min read
GE 2024: Day 34: The Issue Of Education
The General Election has featured little on the state of education other than some mildly grandiose plans on tax, on culture and on...
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Tony - The TDL Times Editor
Jun 24, 20248 min read
GE 2024: Day 33: Another Russia Hoax
Is this what our politics has come down to? Is this the political discussion we decide to go down? Do the highly paid journalists at very...
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Tony - The TDL Times Editor
Jun 23, 20247 min read
GE 2024: Day 32: Starmer’s Past
If you’ve been listening to the BBC radio lately you might have started to here eulogising of the man who looks set to be our next Prime...
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Tony - The TDL Times Editor
Jun 22, 20246 min read
GE 2024: Day 31: The Overton Window
What is socially acceptable to talk about? What are we not really supposed to bring up in conversation at the dinner table? The health or...
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Tony - The TDL Times Editor
Jun 21, 20244 min read
GE 2024: Day 30: I Wouldn’t Bet On It
Tory party officials and candidates tried to make money on betting on when the General Election would be, knowing beforehand due to...
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Tony - The TDL Times Editor
Jun 20, 20246 min read
GE 2024: Day 29: Second Place
Labour are going to win the General Election. A lead that has not dipped to much less than 19 percentage points and a favourable...
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Tony - The TDL Times Editor
Jun 19, 20245 min read
GE 2024: Day 28: Home Is Where A House Is
One of the biggest issues for this election that is getting worse and worse is the availability of housing. Houses are a premium,...
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Tony - The TDL Times Editor
Jun 18, 20246 min read
GE 2024: Day 27: Reform’s Contract
Yesterday the Reform Party published its contact for the election. It is a manifesto in all but name, and it is significantly shorter...
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![GE 2024: Day 26: Where Is Environmentalism?](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/283434_b5922d7299844192a288f30b93c1a4af~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_292,h_219,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/283434_b5922d7299844192a288f30b93c1a4af~mv2.webp)
Tony - The TDL Times Editor
Jun 17, 20246 min read
GE 2024: Day 26: Where Is Environmentalism?
Proclamations of doom used to dominate the television screens as the BBC, ITV, Sky and Channel 4 couldn’t wait to broadcast yet another...
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Tony - The TDL Times Editor
Jun 16, 20246 min read
GE 2024: Day 25: Regional Politics
The United Kingdom is made up of 4 different countries. It can be tempting to focus just on England, which makes a bit of sense...
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Tony - The TDL Times Editor
Jun 15, 20246 min read
Ge 2024: Day 24: The Crossover
For the first time in over a hundred years the Tory Party polled below an insurgent party. For the first time in its history since the...
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![GE 2024: Day 23: The Labour Manifesto](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/283434_37a25eeb65b94f309255b5ddfb5c2eb7~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_292,h_219,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/283434_37a25eeb65b94f309255b5ddfb5c2eb7~mv2.webp)
Tony - The TDL Times Editor
Jun 14, 20244 min read
GE 2024: Day 23: The Labour Manifesto
The Labour Party, on course to win the 2024 general election, published its manifesto with many commitments that were expected and with...
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