After much speculation, Lib Dem leader Vince Cable has finally come out and said he wants to step down from the leadership as soon as logically possible. The timing on this he left vague – understandably – and seems to centre around both next May’s locals and Brexit being complete and/or halted. In addition, he […]
Archives for September 2018
Here’s how a second referendum happens
For a very long time, I considered a second referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU to be a complete impossibility. Neither major party has ever endorsed the idea, which is pretty fatal as these things go. However, I think it is starting to look ever more likely to happen due to a strange, in […]
People aren’t necessarily rejecting centrism when they reject the Lib Dems. They might just be rejecting the Lib Dems
This morning, I saw in my Twitter feed a tweet from George Eaton, the political editor of the New Statesmen, which read: “The Lib Dems are on 6%. It’s almost like centrism isn’t what voters want.” It reminded me of one of my pet peeves of this current political era: people extrapolating from the low […]
Why does everyone try and make both May and Corbyn out to be what they are clearly not?
A new poll on Brexit is out today, commissioned as ever by the Remainers. This one tells us, like many polls on Brexit are telling us at the moment, that Labour Leavers are switching to Remain in significant numbers. Given some Tories are all over the media talking up the idea that Brexit equals some […]
A look at the Boris Daily Telegraph article that provoked a harsh response from Number 10 (at last)
“Look, Boris Johnson resigned over Chequers. There are no new ideas in this article to respond to. What we need at this time is serious leadership with a serious plan and that’s exactly what the country has with this prime minister and this Brexit plan.” That is an official comment from Number 10 in relation […]