November 20th, 2014 will be a dark day for the Conservative and Unionist Party of Great Britain. An Ashcroft poll from yesterday gives UKIP a 12-point lead in the constituency; only some sort of miracle will stop Reckless keeping the seat now. At least with Carswell you could say there was an X factor going […]
Archives for November 2014
The big problem for the main parties is that big tents are quickly becoming a thing of the past
One of the interesting aspects of the faceless “rebellion” against Ed Miliband’s leadership of the Labour Party this past week or so has been that the whole thing stands as the ultimate rebuff of the “35% strategy”. Proof that the idea Labour can sit back, do and say as little as possible during this parliament, […]
The Labour Party either needs to get rid of Miliband or stop talking about the leadership crisis
Lord Kinnock is the latest Labour grandee to leap to the current leader of the party’s defence; all this latest intervention achieves, really, is to keep the “Ed Miliband leadership challenge” story in the news for yet another day. The ex-leader did have a revealing moment when he said the plotters seemed to have a […]
Office Senko, a three-year-old Aryan child, and the back of a convenience store
PREFACE: Although I’m slightly loathe to do this, I feel for many reasons the need to disclose that what you are about to read is complete fiction. Have fun. After I walked out of my job at the meat packing plant following the Snowback incident, I spent most of my unemployed afternoons huddled in […]
Holiday in Beirut, part three
Returning to sleepy London town after a week in Beirut was really quite strange. Living in Zone 2, I never thought where I lived was particularly peaceful. However, on a relative scale compared with the centre of the Lebanese capital, I may as well be living in the middle of Siberia in terms of sound […]
The current fragmenting of British politics might end up benefiting the Lib Dems
February, 2013. Eastleigh. I was knocking on doors in the hopes of helping the Lib Dems hold the seat in the by-election. Apart from meeting a lot of ex-Labour voters who told me they were going to be voting for UKIP and exactly why that was, I also spoke to a lot of people who […]
Recalling that car crash AV referendum moment: Kriss Akabusi Makes it Fifty
The Yes campaign is memorable, to those who wish to indulge in this sort of thing, as an awful one in terms of messaging. For instance, “Make Your MP Work Harder” not only didn’t really resonate with your average Mondeo Man, it had the dual disadvantage of really irritating a good lot of MPs themselves, […]
The UCL immigration report, the Rochester by-election and Colonel Gaddafi
I don’t know what it is about UKIP, but for a party that sees itself as being defenders of all things free and British they really do have a thing for despotic autocrats. Take Mark Reckless, the soon to be the Indie Party’s second Member of Parliament, and his recent contribution to the immigration debate […]
Holiday in Beirut, part two
We headed out of town, south, past the Hezbollah controlled suburbs. Driving past them on the motorway gave me the same feeling previously felt when going past South American shanty towns, or actually come to think of it a bit like scooting past South-Central Los Angeles in the same fashion. These southern suburbs have been […]
The Tories’ Extremism Disruption Orders proposal is a truly terrible one
The Conservative Party does not like it when the government sticks their noses into people’s business. Unless they are the wrong kind of people doing the business, of course. It seems that in the right set of circumstances, noses are most welcome in Tory circles. I say this off the back of Theresa May’s outline […]