David Amess, the Tory MP, has come up with another reason the UK should leave the EU. Apparently the country is being overrun by foreign dogs. Really, I’m not making this one up – I know Amess got done over by Chris Morris years ago on the infamous “Brass Eye” drugs episode, all on the […]
Archives for March 2016
I’m tired of talking about Europe already, so instead I’ll talk about……Europe
I’ve just spent three days in Barcelona. It was the first time I’ve been away from London on something other than business in how long I genuinely cannot recall. I hadn’t been to the city in almost twelve years, and my previous visit was a very different one. Back then, I spent a month in […]
Another interesting Tory fault line emerges
George Osborne wants to change Sunday trading laws to better reflect the 21st century society we live in. I guess by that last sentence it is pretty clear where I stand on that particular issue. However, lest anyone charge in to start calling me a Tory (not that I’m not already used to such things), […]
This is why all of our politicians aren’t very good these days
It is not hard to feel more than a little depressed about the current state of politics – or the current state of politicians. Last night I was reflecting about the possibility of Donald Trump becoming president of the United States of America, of Jeremy Corbyn being the only electoral option open in regards to […]
Could the Tories come second in Scotland in May?
Michael Fallon, the defence secretary, will today announce a £640 million investment in Scotland. It will be specifically around renewing Trident with an emphasis on how the Tories want to protect the thousands of jobs directly related to Trident and its renewal in Scotland – while Labour wants to scrap the deterrent altogether, a comparison […]
Osborne faces greater threats from his own backbenchers than from John McDonnell
Yesterday’s Treasury Questions were interesting – I mean, for people who could ever find Treasury Questions sessions interesting, obviously. Osborne found them tough going this week, which is rare these days. But it wasn’t because Jon McDonnell had a good week. In fact, even by McDonnell’s incredibly low standards this week’s edition was stunningly poor. […]
So why won’t Jeremy Corbyn share a platform with David Cameron exactly?
Corbyn is like the old buses showing up adage – he’s quiet for ages and then a flurry of ill-advised activity is flung at us. So following his decision to hire a former Syriza politician as an adviser, Corbyn takes to ITV last night to tell us that despite sharing the same basic viewpoint as […]