News reaches us that the Labour Party are trying to come to some sort of arrangement with both the Lib Dems and the Greens in Stoke Central in an effort to keep Paul Nuttall out of parliament. This tells you that Labour really do think they will lose the seat to UKIP in a few […]
Brexit and Trump are becoming synonymous for a lot of people. That’s really bad news for Labour
The other day Nadhim Zahawi, the Iraq-born Tory MP for Stratford-Upon-Avon, tweeted about his sadness surrounding the Trump Ban and how it would (we assumed at the time) personally affect him. I retweeted Nadhim and was surprised at how many people came back with something along the lines of “That’s what you get for supporting Brexit”, directed […]
Are the Tories softening on UKIP? What the Stoke by-election might tell us on that
UKIP kept David Cameron up at night, or so we were often told back in those heady days. It was the threat of the purple people eaters taking Tory seats on account of the EU issue that convinced Cameron to make the mistake that eventually brought down his premiership, namely his speech in January 2013 promising […]
Can anyone tell me what the hell Keir Starmer is doing at the moment?
I hate harping on the guy, I really do. Unlike when I point out when Jeremy Corbyn has done something daft, I really don’t enjoy it when I have to take the member of parliament for Holborn and St Pancras to task for a silly move. But Starmer leaves me no choice this week. After Farron […]
This may be the weirdest thing said in the House of Commons – and weirdest move by the Labour Party – ever
Sorry to write about what is essentially the exact same topic two days in a row, but two factors play into me doing this. One, I’m in Italy this week, interviewing people for several projects I have on the go, thus I’m away from Westminster at present and two, the totally bizarre statement given by […]
Philip Hammond’s interesting comments to a German newspaper – and what it hints at for Brexit
The chancellor of the exchequer has been supposedly one of the more single market friendly members of the cabinet, which makes his comments to the German newspaper, Welt am Sonntag, this morning all the more interesting. He said that if the UK floated out of the single market it could abandon social democracy. Or as Phil put […]
The current Unite leadership contest lays all of the problems of the British Left out bare
Besides letting us all have a chuckle at Len McCluskey considering his re-election something of a formality only to find his position far from assured, the campaign around who will be general secretary of Unite the Union tells us pretty much everything one might wish to know about the travails of the modern Left in Britain. Michael Chessum, the […]
More great news for Corbyn: another by-election to face in the north
Man, when it rains it really pours, doesn’t it? Tristram Hunt has now resigned as MP for Stoke Central to take up the post of V&A Museum director. That means, you guessed it, another by-election in which Labour will have to defend a seat in a which Leave won in June by a thumping margin […]
Apparently the Copeland by-election won’t happen until May. Here’s what that tells us
The Copeland by-election, triggered by the resignation of sitting Labour MP Jamie Reed, does not yet have a date. Many have speculated as to when it might be. It now appears the answer is becoming clearer. Andrew Gwynne, the MP who has been handed the task of defending Copeland by Corbyn, has this to say […]
Jeremy Corbyn just burned his one last shred of integrity
When Corbyn got elected as Labour leader in September 2015, I thought at the very least we’d get to see what opposition unhinged and unsullied by compromise would look like. I knew I would probably disagree with a lot of Corbyn’s policies, but I did have to admit that watching someone say previously unsayable things from […]