See you again in two and a half weeks My wife, Jacky, and I are off on our main holiday of the year tomorrow travelling the classy way to Spain on the Hotel Train. We are both now retired and plan to travel a lot more while we are still fit and while it’s still possible to buy travel health insurance at non-exorbitant prices. Unlike my previous holidays we are not planing to post the same number of threads. There…
We are now two thirds the way through conference season – only the Tory one to go and then normal politics resumes. Before this conference season started I thought that the Lib Dem one would be the most interesting and the Labour one the least. How wrong I was. Last week in Birmingham it was a bit boring and the roastings that were predicted for Nick Clegg didn’t happen. Labour in Liverpool has been extraordinary with people continuing to talk…
Well a whole day and a bit has passed since Mr. Miliband made his Liverpool speech and it is still the big talking point. The latest YouGov daily poll, has Labour still with a six point lead over the Tories – 43 to 37 with the LDs on 9. A Sun Tweet had this:- This is hardly dramatic especially as the same poll also has Dave’s rating as “Best PM” down one point as well. Anyway as PB regulars know…