Thursday 24 December 2015

2015 – The Year in Blog Posts


2015 was the first full year of this blog. Below are the most popular posts of each month, as defined by page views, for this year.

The year kicked off with increasing evidence of a Green Party surge.

January


While hostility from the conservative press was to be expected, I must say I have been quite taken aback by how many Labour commentators have completely failed to grasp the mentality of Green supporters or what the "Green Surge" is all about.

Attention then turned to the General Election, which dominated the blog news agenda.

February


In the second of a series of interviews with Green Left supporting candidates at the General Election, Mike Shaughnessy interviews the Green Party's Katy Beddoe, candidate for Caerphilly, Wales.

March


I like to tease my Green friends that I was the first Green parliamentarian in the UK! I was elected as a Labour MEP for Essex and Herts in 1994 but quickly fell out with Tony Blair, I think I was a little ahead of public opinion in recognising that Blair was a fraud and a Tory!

April


In the fifth of a series of interviews with Green Left supporting candidates at the General Election, Mike Shaughnessy talks to the Green Party's Lesley Grahame, candidate for the target constituency of Norwich South.

May


Party leader Natalie Bennett and Caroline Lucas, the Greens' only MP, described their policies as an "unashamedly bold plan to create a more equal, more democratic society".

June


We'll look here at Green voters, but the graphics here give the full results of which party got votes from which demographic groups.

General Election over, the Greek financial crisis moved to centre stage by mid summer.

July


Around two hundred people assembled at the German Embassy in London this evening, to show solidarity with the Greek people in their fight against the vicious and vindictive bail out terms forced on them by their creditors in the EU and IMF.

The Labour leadership contest and its unlikely winner became the big political news story.

August


I’ve not commented until now on Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign to become the Labour party leader, preferring to leave it as a Labour party matter. But it is becoming clear, that if Corbyn wins, it will have a big impact on the Green party’s fortunes.

Then as a side show to Corbyn’s election the EU referendum made a strong appearance.

September


I don’t know whether Jeremy Corbyn, the new leader of the Labour Party, reads this blog, but his strategy for the upcoming referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union (EU) now appears to be remarkably similar to what I recommended here on this blog ten days ago.

Fall-out from the new Tory government’s welfare policies hit the headlines.

October


The figures from the Health and Social Care Information Centre show that in the worst affected areas, Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, 2.4 people out of every 100,000 were admitted to hospital with a primary diagnosis of malnutrition.

Then the vote in Parliament for the UK to bomb IS in Syria proved popular amongst the readership here.

November


The recent history of Britain’s involvement in military action in the middle-east is not a happy one, in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, our interventions have been an unmitigated disaster.

The year ended with the Paris COP21 climate ‘agreement’, which some hailed as a great stride forward.

December


Reading the main stream media you would be forgiven for thinking that the climate crisis has, at one fell swoop, been solved by the agreement reached at the Paris COP21 Climate Summit.

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