The Republican Party is in real turmoil at the moment. Although there is still time and hope within the ranks of their more sensible players that it will all come good in the end, at the moment they have two frontrunners in the presidential nominee race in Trump and Carson who are completely unelectable. However, […]

As I said yesterday, the Tories have suddenly turned on the House of Lords. Everyone from Boris to the Chancellor have now come out with the line that the Upper Chamber should not stand in the way of the now to be stressed “elected chamber’s” wishes. But what the last week has really done, more than anything […]

The right of the Labour Party has been complaining since Corbyn became front-runner to be the next Labour leader that once installed, Corbyn would go about having any MP who doesn’t like him (i.e. almost all of them) deselected in order to make space for someone more, shall we say, malleable to the Corbyn plan. […]

I was at Lib Dem conference when the whole Cameron/pig/college ritual story that we don’t need to go into detail about here since you all know what I am talking about broke. It was predictably the talk of Bournemouth. Myself, I had actually heard the whole story for the first time years and years ago, […]

Prior to the May 2015 general election, a lot of obituaries on the two-party system in Britain were written. I recall reading somewhere that the moon striking the Earth in the next few weeks was more likely than one party forming a majority government. The age of coalitions was, apparently, here to stay. But then […]

This week, veteran Labour MP Michael Meacher passed away. The man’s politics was not my own, but he was clearly someone who felt passionately about his own positions and often wrote eloquently about them. This has obviously led the way to a by-election to take place in the Oldham West and Royton constituency at a […]

I worked for an organisation that was trying to support a change to the House of Lords to transform it into a mostly elected chamber back in 2012. Needless to say the enterprise was not a success. The foremost reason for this is because to say that neither the Tories nor Labour want any significant changes […]

There was an article in the Evening Standard last night regarding the unions choice for next Labour leader. In case you didn’t see the feature, I shall not keep you in suspense any longer: apparently they want Watson to be next in line should Corbyn “fail”. Most of this conjecture is based around Len McCluskey and […]

A tale of two things from last week, one good, one bad for the Labour Party. I start with the good news. Some research suggests that 71 marginal seats currently held by the Tories contain significant numbers of people who will be adversely affected by the cuts to tax credits. In a week in which […]

After Corbyn’s second go at Prime Minister’s Questions, Michael Fabricant, the man many of you might know as the Tory MP with the interesting hair, took to social media to comment. “This ‘Jackie from Abbots Bromley says’ technique is very time consuming. What about back-bench MPs who can’t get in? Corbyn can ask the question without […]