Which party will win? Latest South Shields betting showing best prices and where money is going.Ukip being well supported twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 30, 2013 Which party will come second Bettng on the party to finish second in South Shields. The Ladbrokes market is all Ukip. bit.ly/c5gpH6 twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 31, 2013
It might be about 1974-79 but the lessons are contemporary A couple of weeks ago I went to see what for me was best play about politics in years – James Graham’s “This House” chronicling the period 1974 until Mrs. Thatcher’s victory in 1979. It is enjoying a second sell-out run at the Olivier at the National Theatre. It is set in the whips offices of both Labour and Tories from the February 1974 election being called through to 1979….
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Would 21st century politicians would have any acted differently? The politician allowing the unjust crucifixion of the Son of God was never going to get a particularly good press by history, particularly one the Church wrote. Pilate accepting Christ’s innocence only causes his reputation to fall further: cynical political cowardice set against selfless suffering. Yet the Church’s authorship of the story and the priorities of religion (as against government) do have quite a dramatic distorting effect. Politics, after all, is…
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Big Ben through the railings twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 28, 2013 This is a pic I took on Monday while in Westminster for a briefing on the May 2 local elections. I’m off on holiday for a few days and unless there are big developments I don’t envisage posting very much. We are having a break at Ilkley in Yorkshire in a cottage with my daughter’s family including two of our grandchildren aged 3 and 5. Have a…
Harwich West on Tendring (Lab Defence) Last Local Election (2011): Con 33, Ind 16, Lab 9, Lib Dem 2 (Conservative majority of 6) Name of party 2011 Vote % Share Labour 1,240 42% Conservatives 1,218 41% Community Representatives 318 11% Independents 177 6% Tendring has had a very interesting electoral history. In 2003 it was one of six councils in Essex that were not outright controlled by a party (the other seven were Conservative controlled in six and Lib Dem…
The YouGov detail that shows the Tories level-pegging if Boris was leader twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/st… — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) March 28, 2013