Starmer Reaps His Silence

Hartlepool voted for a Conservative MP instead of Labour for the first time since 1959. This is dreadful for Labour. That they lost a by-election to an eleven-year government is appalling. To lose by the landslide they did rubs salt in the wound. The radio has been replete with Labour strategists and pundits expounding on …

BreYesxit 2 – Where Can My Vote Do The Least Damage?

If I said to you…There was a large group that was successful because of its scale and diversity, but a small part wanted to leave it because of imagined discrimination…might I be talking about Little England Tories and the EU, or the SNP and the UK? Can’t tell them apart really. The Part has done …

Unlockdowning I

Honest Boris announced “Data not Dates”, then gave a list of dates. Actually the approach sounds sensible enough. Good to see there’s a monitoring period between each unwind (let’s see if he can stick to it). After a year of the rash optimism of someone with no scientific or mathematical education and a life of …

Why the Liberals should become the New Tories

Westminster politics is split into two groups: The Conservative Party and the Not-Conservative Parties. The latter traditionally fish in the same pool of votes. The Conservatives themselves are split into two: The Business-Friendly – a practical centre-right bloc, and The Little Englanders – a blend of nationalists, tub-thumpers and fantasists. On policyThe Liberal Democrats have …