As a Tory activist going back twenty-five years I know first hand how badly anti-Tory tactical voting is for the party. This sort of polling was commonplace before July’s election and why I felt confident that the Tories were going to be shellacked like never before. It explains why Labour could win a stonking majority on such a low vote share and why the Lib Dems are within 49 seats of the Tories. Kemi Badenoch has nearly five years to…
This is why I prefer net positives rather than gross positives as it only shows one side rather than a fuller picture, in a broader context Badenoch isn’t as bad as Truss, yet. Sir Keir Starmer had some poor ratings at the start of his leadership which he eventually improved upon which something Kemi Badenoch has plenty of time to do as well but the axiom that oppositions do not win elections governments lose them. TSE
After the bashing the archbishop has received in the last few days these findings are no surprise. It says a lot about a supposedly Christian country that 42% of the country have not heard about the head of the Anglican Communion. Just a reminder that Justin Welby has lifetime membership of the House of Lords, hopefully Sir Gavin Williamson is successful in removing the unelected clergy from the Lords. TSE
Fortunately for America, the number of states using the much superior alternative voting system (known as ranked-choice voting in America) is growing in America, even in presidential elections. TSE
The latest revelation about the prorogation scandal confirms Boris Johnson isn’t fit to lead anything. Quite rightly our current King was furious about how his mother was treated, Prince William was similarly furious about Boris Johnson’s role in ‘the greatest act of constitutional vandalism since Charles I sent soldiers to arrest five members of the Long Parliament’, I cannot see either asking Boris Johnson to form a government. TSE
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From this side of the pond it felt like America was hyper-partisan and that split ticketing would be a thing of the past despite the polling showing otherwise but as we can see it still exists. I’ve not had deep dive in to the senate races but there should be some useful information to be gleaned on what sort of candidate they need to win the White House in 2028, after all this wasn’t a Trump landslide and as Bob…
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