The pre-election temperature will be raised further by a speech to be delivered by Marcus Bowman, president of the UK Chamber of Shipping, at the organisation's annual dinner on Monday night in London, which will accuse political parties of engaging in anti-business rhetoric.
IN GENERAL elections past, the political temperature of a British street could be taken by looking at the windows.
But this would mean an end to the cheap gas and electricity that Argentina's middle class has come to consider an inalienable right and in an election year, no less.As temperatures returned to their mild late-autumn norms this week, the government was able to breathe a sigh of relief.
However, big cultural moments like pageants, sporting events, awards shows and elections give us a temperature check of sorts, exposing the true state of our nation when it comes to issues like race, national origin, gender, religion and sexual orientation.
I mean this thing we still call an "election," in which our temperatures are taken every 30 seconds, in which we are told that we have more or less voted every day for months on end, in which to keep up with events you need to read daily columns by a man who lives only to make sense of this morning's batch of polls.
The 2012 election has a fundamentally different temperature from the 2010 one.
In the first week of May, as the election reached its crescendo, the temperatures rose above a hundred degrees.
He wrote on his Facebook page during the election campaign: "And with freezing temperatures and even snow forecast for Melbourne's outskirts and in parts of New South Wales, I hope many of the warmists haven't sold their coats".
But a twitch of his media muscle at the opening of Australia's federal election has already raised the political temperature.
Whether that's September 11th, or Hurricane Sandy, this recent election it becomes a sort of temperature-taking of the community".
"Temperature changes during any single election cycle are likely to be quite small," the article says.
