Having just read the full report on Labour’s loss in May 2015, helpfully supplied by Stephen Bush at the New Statesman (the report, not the election result, just to be clear), I have come to finally understand what it was that the Labour Party should have done after losing the election. Some have speculated that […]
Why Boris talking about Obama was a bad move
I know I’m writing about BoJo (BoGo now?) a lot at present, but I just can’t help it. He’s popping up practically every day with some new, ill-advised piece of “wisdom”. I never thought I’d say this, but Boris is the new Corbyn. Yesterday it was about Barack Obama. From his Telegraph column came this: […]
Why Boris is wrong about Canada
For a while I have been saying that the EU Leavers have no clear vision of what Out looks like. But finally, Boris has shown me what Brexit will mean. If we vote to leave on June 23rd, Britain will be more like…..Canada. “What I think we should do is strike a new free trade […]
Does the Dan Jarvis Demos speech mean the start of a coup against Corbyn?
Yesterday, Labour MP Dan Jarvis gave a speech at the Demos think tank that had some of the political press in a tizzy. “Dan Jarvis sets out his vision for Labour as leadership talk mounts,” announced a Guardian headline. “Labour backbencher Dan Jarvis is to fuel rumours over his leadership ambitions by setting out his […]
Eurosceptics pining for lost sovereignty want something that no longer exists
The Eurosceptics, it has been said by many, have no clear narrative in this referendum. That’s a little harsh – sure, they have nothing even approximating a consensus on what life outside of the EU looks like for Great Britain (which is fairly important), and sure, they are scrambling all over the place coming up with […]
The latest argument for Brexit involves………puppies. I’m serious
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 […]
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 […]