Do you remember “crush the saboteurs”? Recall when Theresa May’s Tories had a double digit lead over Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party? How in the May 2017 local elections, the Conservative party gained 563 seats and Labour lost almost 400? How all of this led to political pundits – including yours truly – to predict a […]
Archives for September 2019
Why I think Boris Johnson has put himself into an impossible position
The right-wing newspapers still crow about how brilliantly Boris Johnson is doing; yes, it may look to the casual observer as if he’s lost every vote since becoming PM and seems to be visibly disintegrating in the chamber, but no. It’s all part of an ingenious plan to crush the saboteurs. Back in reality, I […]
Here’s why I think Boris Johnson miscalculated yesterday, potentially very badly
Yesterday was a bad day for Boris Johnson. In the chamber, he looked and sounded terrible; a performance that could be described as sub-May, and I didn’t even think that could be a thing 24 hours ago. I liken it to a rap battle in which MCs like Dominic Grieve and Yvette Cooper were spitting […]
This is what I took away from Boris Johnson’s “speech” yesterday evening
The political media like to converge on a consensus of events and to do so very quickly after something has taken place. Yesterday’s Boris Johnson rambling into a microphone for six minutes is no exception. What had been briefed heavily beforehand was that unless MPs give up on their quest to get legislation through the […]
This is what the Lib Dem messaging on Brexit should be in any snap general election
Back in March of this year, an online petition went up on the parliament.uk website. Online petitions rarely gather that many signatures, partly because they often cover obscure topics, but also because most people have cottoned onto the fact that they are never taken seriously by parliament regardless of the numbers they attract. The one […]