Political Observer offers Occam’s razor…
Headline: What George Galloway’s sweeping win in Rochdale says
Sub-headline: His campaign centred on Gaza, a welcome sign for the SNP, which may seek to exploit its difference from Labour’s stance to gain support
https://www.ft.com/content/3a831861-9a36-4945-a050-702daca4223f
What Stephen Bush offers is jejune at best, even garnished with a three color chart, an actual thought process would have helped! This wan paragraph is all The Reader gets.
What does the Rochdale by-election indicate? Not a lot, given that the Labour party abandoned its candidate too late to replace him on the ballot paper and it was too late for the Liberal Democrats — who do have a history in this constituency — to mount a serious crack at it. George Galloway’s campaign was essentially the only serious, organised political machine in town and he duly triumphed handsomely and emphatically despite a very impressive performance by David Tully, a local businessman running as an independent. Galloway won nearly 40 per cent of the vote at 12,335 votes, and Tully came in second at 6,638 votes.
Until it is shanghaied buy this political chatter:
It does suggest a couple of things about the national picture, though. First and foremost, if I were a Scottish National party MP in Glasgow, I would be feeling very happy this morning. I would feel that this result suggests that I can leverage the difference between the SNP and Labour positions on the Israel-Hamas war to my electoral advantage.
Apply Occam’s razor to the question, Mr. Bush must be an Oxbridger !
Occam’s razor, principle stated by the Scholastic philosopher William of Ockham (1285–1347/49) that pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate, “plurality should not be posited without necessity.” The principle gives precedence to simplicity: of two competing theories, the simpler explanation of an entity is to be preferred. The principle is also expressed as “Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.”
In sum Galloway listened to his constancy! Its politics!
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