Posts tagged General Election
General Election
One: 22/11/2019. The 2019 general election campaign is in full swing. The tyre rubber of the political party battle buses is being heavily worn as leaders head around the UK. Glossy manifestos have been printed, lots of different things are being ‘launched’, televised debates between leaders are hot topics of conversation. The weeks and days […]
The general election of 2017 was announced suddenly by Prime Minister Theresa May on April 18th. Nobody knew in advance what her major announcement would be, but a ‘snap election’ was called for June 8th, little under two months away. Before the week was out Whitchurch Common in the constituency of Cardiff North saw the […]
Short-lived blossom was thinning out and daffodils were wilting.. The sky sagged a harmless grey, like it couldn’t quite muster the will to drizzle over the constituency of Cardiff North and its excitably burbling groups of Labour party supporters. On the first floor of a large house beyond the park a young man sat at […]
A blog from South Wales on General Election Day 2015. Far too early in the morning, words of a radio newsreader blended into my brain and I surrendered into foggy consciousness. Just as a few months earlier when heading to the Brecon Beacons, I blearily fumbled around, putting sandwiches and flasks into plastic bags, before climbing into the car […]