June 28th 2024
Lodestone Communications - General Election Note
One last heave... The final full week of election campaigning is again remarkable for the lack of any real jeopardy to the seemingly inevitable Labour victory. Rishi just can’t seem to move the dial. Starmer...
June 26th 2024
They Think It’s All Over…
To coin an overly-used footballing phrase, tonight’s debate – the last before polling day next week - was a game of two halves. Going into this evening’s fixture was a clear favourite to be victorious...
June 21st 2024
Lodestone Communications – General Election Note
The Devil is in the Detail It’s fair to say that the Nation has entered a collective period of Election Fatigue. Figures this week show that public engagement with news (in all forms) is at...
June 17th 2024
Reform UK launches 2024 ’Contract With The People’
Earlier today, recently (re)crowned Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage unveiled the party’s “contract with the people” or– as you and I might call it – a manifesto. The launch comes after Farage’s decision to take...
June 17th 2024
Election Preparedness Playbook
Lodestone Election Preparedness Playbook: A recap of best practice actions for comms and public affairs teams in the run up to the General Election FOREWORD “As the country prepares to go to the polls, those...
June 14th 2024
LODESTONE GENERAL ELECTION NOTE - CAMPAIGN WEEK 3
Pressure Drop – a Political Note from Lodestone Communications Chairman David Wild As the election campaign gathers pace with manifesto launches and more TV debates, the Conservative Party have abruptly shifted their strategy from one...
June 14th 2024
HERE WE GO AGAIN
Do you suffer from de ja vu? It’s quite common. Some people believe - quite sincerely - that it is a symptom of reincarnation: that we all live many lives and that there is much...
June 13th 2024
Labour Party Launches Manifesto – ‘Change’
Following a strong showing in last night’s Sky Leaders Debate in Grimsby, Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer launched the Party’s manifesto Change at the Co-Op Bank in Greater Manchester surrounded by his Shadow Cabinet. While...
June 12th 2024
Fisherman’s Blues
In the fishing town of Grimsby, where the 1977-2015 MP briefly changed his name to ‘Haddock’ as a vote winner, the party leaders angled for victory in their second TV appearance of this election campaign...
June 12th 2024
Green Party Launches 2024 Manifesto - ‘Real Hope, Real Change’
Today, the Green Party’s terrible twosome/dynamic duo (depending on your political persuasion) Carla Denyer and Adrian Ramsay launched their manifesto Real Hope, Real Change, which sounds like Labour’s 2019 manifesto It’s Time for Real Change...
June 7th 2024
Lodestone General Election Note - Campaign Week 2
Normandy Beaches – A Political Note from Lodestone Communications Chairman David Wild The role that D-Day plays in the British psyche and in the West more generally is that of a blood sacrifice for freedom...
June 5th 2024
DEBATE ME!
What is the point of the leaders’ debates? Well, that depends on which leader you are. For Keir Starmer, the point is to reinforce the central message of his campaign: we’ve changed, this country...
