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The perceptions on the Tories and Labour

The perceptions on the Tories and Labour

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YouGov have published some polling, conducted within the last week on which groups the voters identify the Tory Party and the Labour Party with. The findings aren’t that surprising. The Tories are perceived to be really close to the rich, businessmen/The City, and voters in the south. Whilst Labour are seen as being really close to trade unions, the working class, and benefit claimants. The most interesting finding from this polling was that the Tories are seen as being not…

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Gove pushes Boris out off the top slot in ConHome’s latest next CON leader survey

Gove pushes Boris out off the top slot in ConHome’s latest next CON leader survey

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ConHome Was the Mayor’s Brexit move a mistake? The big political betting story this lunch time is that Boris Johnson has been pushed out of the top slot in the Conservativehome survey of next.com leader preferences by Michael Gove. Boris is, of course the long-standing betting favourite to succeed David Cameron but he’s been having a bit of a rough time during the BREXIT campaign. The mayor’s flippant and seemingly arrogant approach at a recent Commons Treasury select committee session…

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Nicky Morgan’s academy plan could boost her leadership hopes – or kill them stone dead

Nicky Morgan’s academy plan could boost her leadership hopes – or kill them stone dead

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Donald Brind on the Ed Sec’s big gamble Nicky Morgan reckons she has what it takes to be Tory leader. She put her name on the board last October and followed it up with a declaration in February that it would be “a big mistake if Tory members were offered a choice between “two white men”, when David Cameron steps down. Her dream is in desperate need of a boost. In last month’s Conservative Home survey of leadership contenders she…

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The disintegrating establishment

The disintegrating establishment

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In 2010, Britain was being wrestled over by two parties competing to portray themselves to the public as the natural party of government.  In his first conference speech, David Cameron returned repeatedly to the theme of “substance”.  He told his party: “Real substance is about taking time to think things through, not trotting out easy answers that people might want to hear.  It’s about sticking to your guns.  It’s about character, judgement, and consistency.  It’s about policy, yes.  But it’s…

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Boris Johnson is having a deeply unimpressive referendum campaign so far

Boris Johnson is having a deeply unimpressive referendum campaign so far

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w21s5r2nTlA Boris Johnson engaging in a level of flip flopping that would make even Andy Burnham blush. pic.twitter.com/nAlfuPrG3a — TSE (@TSEofPB) March 27, 2016 If he wants to be leader, he needs to improve sharply in the next three months just to make the final two of the next Tory leadership contest. Look at the above video from Boris Johnson’s appearance at the Treasury Select Committee earlier on this week, where his past comments/hyperbole on the EU came back to…

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Alastair Meeks: How the Eurosceptics are destroying the Conservative party

Alastair Meeks: How the Eurosceptics are destroying the Conservative party

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Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.  By that definition, the Eurosceptic right of the Conservative party is insane. It’s not as if we haven’t been here before.  In the mid-1990s, a cell of dissident Conservative MPs contrived to make government with a small majority a living hell for their nominal party superiors, challenging the government on a succession of grievances (real and imagined) relating to Britain’s membership of the EU.  By the…

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Corbynus interruptus would destroy Tory hubris about 2020 immediately

Corbynus interruptus would destroy Tory hubris about 2020 immediately

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John Major had bastards to deal with, David Cameron has twats to deal with.https://t.co/3JYbc2BUOc pic.twitter.com/71fMrLxHRV — TSE (@TSEofPB) March 20, 2016 IDS says welfare cuts when middle class tax is being cut is "deeply unfair and was seen to be unfair" — Tim Shipman (@ShippersUnbound) March 20, 2016 That was electrifying stuff. IDS has basically said, with real passion, that the government is not doing enough to help the poor. — Tim Shipman (@ShippersUnbound) March 20, 2016 Just look at…

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The Tories are very lucky the Lib Dems didn’t accept George Osborne’s coupon deal

The Tories are very lucky the Lib Dems didn’t accept George Osborne’s coupon deal

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Embed from Getty Images British politics today might have been very different if the Lib Dems had accepted Osborne’s deal The Mail on Sunday are serialising the memoirs of David Laws, the former Liberal Democrat cabinet minister, in it he reveals that The Tories secretly tried to form a 2015 Election pact with the Lib Dems to keep the Coalition going, according to David Laws. He says George Osborne proposed a so-called ‘coupon election’ deal with the Lib Dems, whereby…

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