Political betting can get you into serious trouble
If charges are brought I suspect it will not help the Tories shake off their sleazy reputation, ditto the police. TSE
The Chancer of the Exchequer
The story about Rachel Reeves and her curriculum vitae is one of those stories that can be so debilitating for a politician and the government when things are going sub optimally. That said successive Tory Prime Ministers were happy to have Andrea Leadsom in their cabinet after she admitted to misleading claims on her CV so I cannot see her resigning or getting sacked over this. I cannot see any markets on Rachel Reeves quitting/get sacked but right now I…
This is how polls should be reported
I agree with John Burn-Murdoch. TSE
This explains so much
I think the nicest thing that can be said about Sunak is that he wasn’t as bad as Truss or Johnson. The Northern Leg of HS2 was scrapped to keep Sunak positive and lift him out of his funk. By the end of June, Sunak was in a deep funk. A senior adviser said: “At that point, Rishi was punch drunk. He spent a lot of his time in a very bad place. He goes through long periods of just…
The Conservatives are the 1/10 favourites to win the next general election
Next year one of the major elections will be the 45th Canadian federal election which has to be held on or by the 20th of October 2025 and the betting from Ladbrokes shows the expected trend of incumbents getting clobbered senseless. If you can spot any value in this market then share your wisdom in the comments. TSE
Why don’t old people like dinosaurs?
This is not an age split I was expecting to see. TSE
The end of the enlightenment
I thought the appointments of Matt Gaetz as Attorney General and Tulsi Gabbard as DNI were bad but the appointment of RFK Jr as Health & Human Services Secretary seems to be even worse. I suppose we should brace ourselves for Marjorie Taylor Greene as CIA Director. It’s going to be an rather wild four years, buckle up. TSE
There is bad news for the forces of antidisestablishmentarianism
The other day I noted the voters are pretty ambivalent about Christianity, this is further proof of that. 73% say the Church of England has little to influence in the lives of Brits, support for separation of church and state and the UK to stop being like Iran and expel unelected clergy from our parliament is high. This polling was conducted before the calls on Justin Welby to resign so I’d expect the polling to get worse for God botherers…