Who's Afraid of Monomaniacs? ; the Three-Way Combination of Elections Held Tomorrow Is a Muddle - but They Could Still Pan Out to the Pm's Benefit
Evening Standard - London › June 09, 2004
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TONY Blair once mused on Desert Island Discs that his favourite song was some hippy number entitled, Cancel Today. In this choice he might well be joined by Michael Howard as both men face their respective demons in tomorrow's elections.
A bewildering cocktail of candidates awaits us poor voters, spiced with the uncertain impact of postal ballots succumbing to late printing, the vagaries of the Royal Mail and impenetrable forms. The question of what sort of Europe we want is to be mixed up with local council votes everywhere except London, where we get to keep the turbulent Mayor or road-test a new one.See the full content of this document
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Who's Afraid of Monomaniacs? ; the Three-Way Combination of Elections Held Tomorrow Is a Muddle - but They Could Still Pan Out to the Pm's Benefit
It is a rare old mess.
But a mess in whose interests? That is a far more open question than it was when the campaign began. The plot seemed pretty simple then.Labour faced a beating from its grass roots who looked like withholding their campaigning and votes in protest over Iraq, to the...See the full content of this document
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