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 […]
Things get worse for Labour: Corbyn hires Varoufakis
There was a piece in the Telegraph yesterday announcing that Corbyn was getting the former Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, to advise Labour in “some capacity”. At first I thought this was probably the Telegraph blowing nothing up into something, in other words McDonnell had had a coffee with the guy or something, that’s it, […]
The problem for Brexiteers is they are fighting the EU campaign using their opponent’s language already
There was an article in the Telegraph a couple of days ago that beautifully summarises what the article you are about to read is about. It was by Richard Walton and the headline stated: “Brexit wouldn’t jeopardise our fight against terrorism”. Seasoned campaigners should be able to point out the glaring fault in that sentence […]
The Conservative Party isn’t going to split over Europe
I have been a contributor once or twice to the discussion on the realignment of British politics over the previous few years. After the last general election, I like many who wasn’t all that thrilled with the result, consoled myself the notion that the EU referendum would see a possible split in the Conservative Party. […]
Why I’m supporting Sadiq Khan for London mayor
I have been undecided for a while in regards to who I would like to be the next mayor of London. Part of me likes Zac’s rebellious, think outside the box thing. Also, I have worried that Sadiq winning would be a victory for Corbyn. But now I’ve weighed up everything and come to a decision: […]
More and more, the Leave campaign resembles Yes to AV
I’ve actually written about this before, but this week I really do need to say it again: the Leave campaign at present eerily resembles one of the AV referendum campaigns, and not the side that won. The most immediately relevant piece of evidence for this being the already legendary Mandy Boylett “Three Lions” video that […]
Nadine Dorries, Cameron, and who is prime minister – why this helps the Remain side of the debate
Yesterday, Nadine Dorries, Tory MP and erstwhile game show contestant, took to LBC to say some things about the EU referendum debate. I shouldn’t have to actually say this but just to confirm, Dorries is a Brexiteer. But she had this to say about David Cameron, which is interesting: “If the British public vote to […]
This is one of the best arguments for Remain – and Cameron is finally using it
There are many arguments concerning why the UK should remain a member of the European Union that I have been waiting for David Cameron to use for months now. But he finally used one in particular yesterday for the first time. It’s a simple one: if we voted to leave in the referendum, it wouldn’t […]
Interpreting the Boris doorstep speech
So Boris has gone for Leave; but as he gave the media advance warning on that score, we all knew it was coming. He held the media scrum outside his front door, keeping them waiting for his big out of the closet speech on the EU. Only it wasn’t much of a speech in the […]