Not since 1945 has Labour had such a surge in its voter base. Tories try to salvage some of their pride by saying May got more votes than Blair in 1997 (but not as many as Major in 1992). But Corbyn achieved a much bigger increase, beating Blair in 2001 and 2005 and Gordon Brown […]
May is reported telling her MPs ‘I got us into this mess and I will get us out of it.’ If she were truly reformed she would have said ‘I got us into this mess and together we will get out of it.’ But it was a first step on her road to reality.
May is now stripped of all political power. But the political pot is at boiling point with many elements bubbling around. Here are some of them. A spokesman for the DUP has said his party’s toxic attitudes to abortion, sexual orientation, climate change and other issues, were shared within many parts of the Tory party. […]
If May were to return to the Palace and inform the Queen that she could not, after all, form a government, the Queen would have to send for Corbyn and let him have a go. Likewise if she failed to get her Queen’s Speech through the Commons. But if she falls after that, because the […]
Just to add fuel to the flames of the fire in which Tory credibility is now roasting, Labour has a six point lead over them in the latest opinion poll. It happens to be the one which came closest to predicting the actual result, so you can take it seriously.
Europe this morning looks on in disbelief at the extraordinary spectacle of a complete political collapse of the government of the United Kingdom as its wounded leader, described as a dead woman walking by the former Tory Chancellor, struggles to glue a fix with the most reactionary political party in Europe, in order to cling […]
There is no doubt the Tories won the election in total seat numbers, but as a measure of the direction of travel, seats alone are not enough. You need also to look at the votes and especially the increase in votes. Here are some figures for you to compare. The Tories lost 13 seats, gained […]
Yesterday May went to see the Queen, then stood in Downing Street and announced that, with the support of her friends the DUP, she was forming a new government. So where is it? The government seems to have vanished. No ministers have been seen going in and out of Number Ten, as is normal at […]
That it has come to this beggars belief. The power sharing government of Northern Ireland has collapsed because the sectarian hatred, prejudice, provocative Orange culture and unwillingness to compromise of the DUP, not only acted as the wick which kept the fire of the Troubles burning, but has prevented the final completion of the peace process, […]
As this Blog has been promoting all along the young turned out and delivered the biggest political upset since way back, which few saw coming. It is a political calamity for the over confident May, who thought she was running for President with her I, Me, My campaign , full of hot air, empty of […]