There is a lot of crap being said in Westminster at present. On Radio 4 today, someone, I don’t who as I was only half-listening at the time, said that should Theresa May fail to get the Repeal Bill through, “Jeremy Corbyn automatically becomes prime minister”. This is unbelievable drivel. Imagine for a moment that […]
Is Theresa May staying on as prime minister for the next two years a good or a bad thing for the Conservative Party?
“I’m not a quitter” Theresa May has told the British press who have decamped to Japan to follow her tour in east Asia, when asked if she would be stepping down before the next election. “Yes” she answered when it was enquired of her whether or not she would remain Tory leader going into the […]
Everyone is massively overreacting to Labour’s change in Brexit policy
Over the weekend, Labour clarified its Brexit position. A little bit anyhow, which given how foggy it has been up until this point seems like a lot to most observers. Basically, Labour have said that during the transitional period, Britain should remain in the single market and the customs union. No further clarity on what […]
Not getting behind Gove as leader was the biggest mistake the Tory Right will ever make
Many a pundit has asked: why have Brexiteers been so grumpy during a period when the country voted for what they had campaigned for decades to brig about, and during which we appear to be headed for Brexit without question? In other words, why have they been such sore winners? I think a big part of it […]
How Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn’s approach to their parliamentary parties are the opposite of each other – and why that’s key
What undid Cameron’s premiership wasn’t the Brexit referendum; that was merely a symptom of the approach that he took that killed his political career. Which was that he was always too concerned with the whims of parliamentary party and bent over backwards to try and keep them onside. This was why he promised the In/Out […]
How the Left is stuck in the first stage of grief – and what that is doing to the Corbynist agenda
It is silly season at present, and therefore it is very telling what each of the major parties is putting forth as policy announcements. The Tories are releasing a whole bunch of policy papers regarding Brexit in the hopes that the dodgier bits of it will fly by most pundits and the public (this has […]
Ireland and Brexit: the plot thickens
The government has published a paper about what it wants in regards to the “Irish question” in relation to Brexit, namely how to avoid a hard border between north and south Ireland that would bring with it numerous problems (not least of which would be the end of the current government via the DUP dropping […]
Why I don’t think Jacob Rees-Mogg as the next Prime Minister is as far-fetched as it currently sounds
Moggmentum, those right-wing enough to be into that sort of thing call it. What started as a quasi-joke has taken on a life of its own. Seems there really are enough Tory activists out there in thrall to the Moggster. This is mostly still being treated as a very remote possibility by the right of centre […]
There is going to be a pro-EU rally outside Tory conference this year. That’s good news for all sorts of reasons
The Guardian informs me this morning that there will be a pro-EU protest outside of Conservative Party conference in Manchester this year. I will now tell you why this is good news – even for Eurosceptic Tories. The Conservatives hold their conference in Manchester every two years. I don’t know why they do this – I […]
Why is everyone still pretending Theresa May has any real power?
The Sun is not happy with Philip Hammond. Not one bit. For his intervention in telling the nation the obvious, namely that we’ll need some sort of transitional deal after spring of 2019 in order to stave off crisis, he has been given a black mark. The most interesting aspect of the Sun article about […]