I have speculated in the past about who would succeed David Cameron as Tory leader. I’ve said David Davis; I’ve also intimated that Owen Patterson might be a nailed on certainty. All of these predictions were predicated on certain things happening which in the end did not (such as Cameron failing to get a majority […]
As May 2015 showed, UKIP is not the obvious home for disgruntled Tories – the EU referendum won’t change that
A man many of you will have never heard of by the name of John Strafford has reacted rather badly to David Cameron’s “assault on constituency associations” this week, when the prime minister said that Tory MPs should basically not listen to their Eurosceptic members and instead hop on the Remain coach with the vast […]
I’m really sick of the Jeremy Corbyn-Bernie Sanders conflation. The two men are very, very different
I don’t want to pick on Owen Jones again, but I’m forced to. Yesterday he penned an article entitled “First Corbyn, now Sanders: how young voters’ despair is fuelling movements on the left” which pretty much did what it says on the tin. The basic idea is that the rise of Corbyn and Sanders can […]
Where are all the female Eurosceptics?
There was an item on the BBC News earlier this week about the EU referendum campaigns. They did a piece from the offices of Vote Leave and one thing stood out beyond anything else: everyone you saw, in every single shot, was a man. In fact, all the blokes seemed to fit a similar pattern […]
Is it just possible the Tories want Zac Goldsmith to lose in London?
Yesterday witnessed a London mayoral hustings in which all of the conceivable candidates for said position spoke. Those who were there and I consider reliable witnesses claim that Sadiq really won the night, with Zac being a little flat (and predictably, Galloway getting way too much floor time as he refused to shut up). There […]
So Cameron has announced his EU renegotiation deal. Now what?
Yesterday, in a factory in Wiltshire, David Cameron announced that he had agreed a deal with Donald Tusk (that needs to be ratified at the Brussels summit February 18 and 19th I hasten to add) essentially laying out what the British public will be voting for if they mark “Remain” on their ballot papers come […]
Is it just me or was “Firefly” really not very good?
I realise two things. One, reviewing a TV show that came out in 2002 definitely puts me a decade and a half out of the loop. Two, give reverence for this show is on a monumental level for many sci-fi fans, I’m about to make some enemies here. I finally watched the first episode of “Firefly” […]
Cameron v Farage debate during the EU referendum short campaign? It might go something like this
At some point relatively soon, we will probably know the date the referendum that will determine whether or not the United Kingdom remains a member of the European Union. It will probably be June – it will probably be June 23rd. If that’s the case, will we see some sort of “EU debate” on TV, […]
Migration crisis, summer 2016: how bad could it be?
The West has been in denial about Syria in many, many ways since the civil war there kicked off in the spring of 2011. In denial about its reasonable proximity, preferring to think of the conflict as being something happening far away, with no impact on Europe; in denial about the idea that because the […]
What Cameron closing in on the four year deal means
So after a week of dark clouds emerging from the Number 10 press office regarding Cameron’s ability to get the renegotiation deal he wants fully signed off at the summit to be held on February 18 and 19th, in order to facilitate a June referendum, suddenly this morning we got some good news on that […]