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Late Saturday I wrote the piece below on my voting intentions. I put it aside upon learning of horrendous events that occurred on London Bridge at 10 pm that night. My first inclination was not to post it at all, seeing it as being if not an irrelevance then unnecessary. However Theresa May’s remarks yesterday, […]
One week tomorrow The United Kingdom goes to the polls. I can not recall an election so lacking in public energy in my lifetime. And I don’t believe that this is because I am a Grumpy Senior muttering to that “it wasn’t like this when I was ….”.
There are several reasons why this could […]
The Referendum was ultimately not called to settle the issues it was claimed to address. It was about one thing: a divided Conservative Party and a Prime Minister wanting to flush out rebels in the party, in order to assert their authority over it and to provide an unopposed mandate. Mother Theresa may now have […]
Last night’s by-election results are very indicative: the Stoke-on-Trent result shows that, even in ‘Brexit heartland’, Brexit was not a vote for extremism Labour under Corbyn by not holding on to Copeland, a seat it won in the General Election, is a party that is in a cul-de-sac. most importantly, the Tories will divide and […]
From: Eric Wilton
Subject: Brexit
Date: 17 February 2017 at 17:27:13 GMT
To: info@tonyblairoffice.org
Dear Tony Blair
As somebody who has changed my mind* on Brexit, I applaud your speech today and support its ambitions.
There were so many things that were wrong with the referendum that there any […]
“If we are to reach real peace in this world… we shall have to begin with children.” Mahatma Gandhi
The Ericle is in Marseille this week. Currently France is exercised by the Presidential launch of the National Front’s Marine Le Pen presidential campaign; aided & abetted by a political scandal involving Francois Fillon, […]
On the eve of the Trump inauguration, The Ericle is – like many others – pondering where and what it will lead to. And like many others, I’m anxious about the prospects.
It may not have escaped my reader’s notice that this blog has more than a passing interest in matters political, domestic and […]
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A Guest Essay from The Slog
This is the first time The Ericle has re-published a piece from another source. It comes from THE SLOG, a brilliant example of what a blogging should be, written by John Ward with whom I worked in AdLand in the first half of the 1980s. John expresses, in his own inimitable style, many of the […]