Last night Rishi Sunak confirmed that the next general election will take place next year, this isn’t a surprise to me or anybody else. Only an idiot would hold a general election in 2025 that would see the election campaign that would straddle the Christmas & New Year period. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots would hold a general election in 2025 that would see the election campaign that would straddle the Christmas & New…
With the sad news that Mark Drakeford will stand down as Welsh First Minister and Welsh Labour leader in March there is a market on his replacement. If you think it is going to be Vaughan Gething then you can get a near 62% return in three months. I think Welsh Labour will be using the alternative voting system which may make the voting a bit more complicated but who wins will struggle to replace the real Prince of Wales…
David Cameron was right on so many things, his maxim about Twitter was prescient and an indicia of the great man’s brilliance and humour. It has been over fourteen years since those comments and some politicians still haven’t learned the lesson but there’s now a different problem for politicians when it comes Twitter, we shall call this the X rated problem. As we can see in the above Tweets when politicians post palpable nonsense then community notes will appear pointing…
I never knew how annoying I was until I created miniature versions of myself and spent time with them, I suspect the teenagers who are currently running the Tory Twitter account will have a similar epiphany when they become parents. The post from the Tory Party’s Twitter account was derided at the time by Tory MPs who urged the tweet to be deleted because they realised it would be counter productive. This tweet was sadly not an exception, when the…
Nothing better epitomises Rishi Sunak being an arrogant, out of touch elitist than the way he mounts his chopper on a regular basis. Brilliant political analysts have warned Sunak for a while that this is going to damage him such as this piece here from August, what is different now Sunak’s behaviour has taken away money from the Ministry of Defence, short of Sunak punching a NHS nurse on live TV I am not sure how the optics could look…
As The Times observes Rishi Sunak is now as unpopular as Boris Johnson was when he resigned as prime minister. Polling from YouGov, carried out before last night’s crunch vote on the Rwanda bill, found 70 per cent of people said they had an unfavourable opinion of Sunak, compared with 21 per cent who had a favourable opinion. It means the prime minister has been given his lowest ever net favourability score of minus 49, a drop of ten points…
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Last week I texted fellow PBer JohnO with my fear/expectation that we would have a snap election in the new year caused by the Rwanda kerfuffle. John is the voice of sanity and experience when it comes to politics and his view was that he would eat one of my old trainers if there was an early election, in his words ‘Paddy Ashdown only had to consume a hat.’ I suspect this is a bit like the Nobody Moves Or…