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The Lib Dems are coming off life-support: something else for Labour to worry about

The Lib Dems are coming off life-support: something else for Labour to worry about

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How closely are we going to re-run the 1980s? We’ve not heard much from the Lib Dems lately. The party which until last year supplied the Deputy Prime Minister, the Business Secretary and three other cabinet ministers, which before the election had more than fifty MPs and which had been treated by the media almost on an equal footing with the Conservatives and Labour simply disappeared from view. A year on and there are signs that a tentative recovery might…

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The LAB-UKIP race is on: Which party will split first?

The LAB-UKIP race is on: Which party will split first?

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All not happy in UKIP-Land. Faragists Vow to "Declare War on UKIP" – Guido https://t.co/OPPknzez3j — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) August 3, 2016 Mirror July 13: Owen Smith warns of "disastrous split" if Corbyn winshttps://t.co/ip0QjZslX1 — Jason Beattie (@JBeattieMirror) August 3, 2016 Calling @sharpeangle William Hill @LadPolitics What about a new betting market? Which party will split first UKIP or Labour? — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) August 3, 2016 What about if 3+ current MPs/MEPs move to new party? — Mike Smithson…

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Labour’s Parliamentary pain is not just bad for Labour, but for the country as a whole

Labour’s Parliamentary pain is not just bad for Labour, but for the country as a whole

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  Joff Wild on the divides in the main opposition party Today’s Daily Telegraph ran an intriguing piece about plans being hatched by some Labour MPs if, as expected, Jeremy Corbyn wins the party’s leadership election in September. According to the newspaper’s political correspondent Ben Riley-Smith, rebels are exploring the possibility of setting up a semi-independent party in the Commons that would have its own leader and front bench, and would aim to replace Corbyn’s Labour as the official opposition….

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Today’s 2nd terrible poll for Corbyn: YouGov ratings from its latest Scotland survey

Today’s 2nd terrible poll for Corbyn: YouGov ratings from its latest Scotland survey

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Just 19% of Scots LAB GE2015 voters say Corbyn doing well, 66% badly Remember in those by-gone days in September 2015 when Mr. Corbyn pulled off his sensational leadership victory? Remember what he said would be his biggest initial priority? That was going to be Scotland where five months earlier Labour had slumped from 40 seats in the general election to just one – the same as the LD and CON. This was absolutely awful for the party and raised…

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What would really make Corbyn invincible is doing better than the 59.5% of 2015

What would really make Corbyn invincible is doing better than the 59.5% of 2015

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WikipediaLAB leadership contest 2015 If last week’s YouGov LAB members’ polling is indeed in the right territory and the split in the 183k £25 sign-up is as reported then Corbyn is heading for a big victory when the results are announced on September 24th. Sure a lot can happen in the next eight weeks and Owen Smith is still a relative unknown but nobody doubts that he has a mountain to climb. Perhaps the best he can hope for is…

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How Theresa May could turn out to be the Labour party’s very unlikely saviour

How Theresa May could turn out to be the Labour party’s very unlikely saviour

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXVi0MikSx8 Video: A clip from John McDonnell’s appearance on The Andrew Marr Show this morning Joff Wild on how Theresa May could simultaneously increase the Tory majority and save the Labour Party from Corbyn John McDonnell’s appearance on the Andrew Marr Show this morning was among the most extraordinary television interventions that a senior politician has made in recent years. During the course of the interview, McDonnell explained how the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, did not understand the party’s policy…

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A staggering 54% of Corbyn supporters in the YouGov members’ poll think their man will lead them to victory

A staggering 54% of Corbyn supporters in the YouGov members’ poll think their man will lead them to victory

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Via @TimesRedBox More from the YouGov LAB members poll. How Corbyn fans view their manpic.twitter.com/2TG81Ja0Cw — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) July 19, 2016 How can you argue with people who totally believe this? The graphic above is from the Times Redbox and has further detail from the Times YouGov Labour members’ poll. This one looks at how at how the Corbyn backers view the current party leader. I find the figures staggering particularly the 54% believing that he’ll take them to…

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Corbyn and McCluskey, comrades in arms

Corbyn and McCluskey, comrades in arms

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Joff Wild on why Len McCluskey will never abandon Jeremy Corbyn One of the more striking aspects of Labour’s headlong plunge into seemingly permanent civil war and irrelevance is the role being played by the trade unions in the conflict; and, in particular, the unwavering and highly vocal support that Jeremy Corbyn has received from Unite leader Len McCluskey. Speaking at the Unite annual conference this week, for example, McCluskey described the mass resignation of shadow ministers from Labour’s front…

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