There is a famous internet meme where the phrase ‘I can’t even’ means the person uttering the phrase is so shocked and speechless by an event or events they don’t know what to say. I’m experiencing that exact same sensation with the stories about about Nadhim Zahawi and Boris Johnson. This is the sort of behaviours you’d expect to see in a banana republic, even Robert Mugabe would have blushed at the antics from this government. For those of us…
The last Labour leader to take his party from opposition to government put education at the heart of his campaign and I suspect Starmer’s policy on private schools might also become similarly totemic. The polling is clear and if the Tories try to oppose and criticise Starmer’s policy it will make the Tories look even more out of touch with the ordinary, I’m sure the Red Wall will want tax breaks for rich people instead of that money going to…
Sometimes there isn’t much to add and that word cloud sums up the absolute dire situation that the Tory party faces. The difficulty for the Tories is that they cannot campaign on the Covid vaccine rollout because it will bring up memories about all Tory rule breaking during the lockdowns. With Brexit going suboptimally in the eyes of the voters then being the party that gave us Brexit might not be a vote winner. If Sunak cannot turn this polling…
Given the general unpopularity of the government, the more pressing issues facing the country, and the general derision from the commentariat I’m slightly surprised by these poll findings even though I’m in favour of children studying more mathematics. What the pandemic showed was that so many people in the country, including far too many people in the country, the media and political class were so (statistically) innumerate, more maths lessons would help so many as well as the country. The…
Normally we get regular polling that shows the public view Brexit as a mistake such as the above polling from YouGov and I’ve been of the view that regret over Brexit doesn’t necessarily mean the voters want to rejoin the EU yet the below polling from People’s Polling is making me reconsider that judgment. What I find really striking about this polling is that given how much freedom of movement and immigration featured in the referendum campaign this polling showing…
This piece originally started off as a 2023 predictions thread but then I realised the 2024 presidential election and the next UK general election featured heavily then it dawned on me that is very likely that both these elections may happen within weeks if not days of each other which represents some challenges for punters. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots would hold a UK general election in January (2025), it would be an election…
I’ve been posting for a while, as has Mike Smithson, about why we have our doubts about Labour winning a majority at the next election. One of them is Brexit, another is headline voting intentions generally strip out don’t knows, and if they do vote at the next election then as the above poll shows it could prevent a Labour majority. Considering where we were just over 18 months ago and Labour had just lost Hartlepool then and now Labour…
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