What Brits think about the Big Mac eating surrender monkey’s plans for Ukraine
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The long term economic plan
This explains why Labour are generally ahead of the Tories in the voting intention figures. TSE Site notice – I am beginning a short holiday today and blogging will be light over the next few days.
This morning I said Rachel Reeves was safe in the forthcoming reshuffle
With my usual impeccable timing this morning I wrote a piece based on The I newspaper’s article that Rachel Reeves was safe in the forthcoming reshuffle, a few hours later as we can see with the screenshot above from the BBC News website that may be a dubious prediction. Having read the articles I think with Rachel Reeves there’s no smoking gun, the stories are embarrassing but not a resigning matter, but if these types of stories become more numerous…
Reshuffle talk is in the air but Reeves is safe but not Phillipson
It’s not been an entirely auspicious start for Starmer’s government and a reshuffle might achieve a reset. It is no surprise that Bridget Phillipson and Lord Hermer are llkely to be moved on, the former for her poor handling of the inevitable consequences of adding VAT to private school fees mid academic year and other assorted problems at the DfE. Lord Hermer is no surprise for the way the Chagos Island deal has been handled, he is proving to be…
The day the Europe and world changed
The reality is the bear eighty year long underpinning of NATO by America is over today, Europe will have to raise her defence spending, this tempest was long foretold. For the UK that means a mixture of tax increases and non defence spending cuts unless you want a repeat of the 1930s when appeasement was the policy of the day and rearmament was not popular, but will Starmer deliver this? I have my doubts due to the unpopularity it will…
Why growth might not be enough for Labour
Who’d be a politician? You could deliver record breaking growth but the electorate decides it is the wrong type of growth. TSE
I wonder how J.D. Vance must be feeling today?
A few weeks ago I said I posted that I thought Donald Trump’s successor for the Republican nomination would be someone who he anoints and would likely be a family member and this interview by that Trump reassures me that I am following the correct strategy. Punters reacted to this news and Vance’s position has recovered somewhat but right now I think he’s a lay if you want to tie your money up for that long, I suspect the value…
Labour’s fifty year and counting woman problem
Today is the fiftieth anniversary of Margaret Thatcher becoming Tory leader and she has been a trailblazer for women the Tory party has gone to have three further women leaders yet Labour haven’t yet elected their first woman leader in those fifty years. Since Thatcher was elected Labour have eleven leadership contests and in only four of those did any woman stand, by contrast the Tories have thirteen leadership elections since 1975 and in seven of them women have stood,…