Don Brind on how Corbyn’s out of line with his shadow chancellor For someone who insisted for years that Twitter wouldn’t catch on I’m pathetically pleased these days when one of my tweets gets liked. I was somewhat surprised to get a “like” from a committed Corbynite Mrs Gee. I had told her “I’m a bit of a fan of John McDonnell — when he’s doing his day job”. The qualification was crucial. By day job I meant Shadow Chancellor and…
Trump’s best hope is by becoming more boring This from the excellent Rick Klein of ABC neatly sums up where we are and what Trump needs to do:- ” It’s not just that Donald Trump needs to pivot – it’s that he needs to pivot away from being what’s made him Donald Trump. That means traditional-candidate Trump, maybe even boring-candidate Trump, reading from notes or TelePrompTers, and staying away from interviews and Twitter for a while. (Not coincidentally, Hillary Clinton…
https://twitter.com/MSmithsonPB/status/762596287661412352 #Breaking Five new members of the Labour Party win High Court battle over right to vote in leadership election pic.twitter.com/zwwbh4M4lu — PA Media (@PA) August 8, 2016 FOR SALE: Spare vote in Labour leadership contest. One previous, careful owner. Unused. £25 o.n.o — Robert Harris (@Robert___Harris) August 8, 2016 https://twitter.com/jimwaterson/status/762592462732926976 It is very hard to come to a view about what will be the electoral impact of today’s judgement. There is so much overlap between the new members who…
How Britain’s politics have totally changed Back at the end of April when the Tories were totally split on the referendum YouGov tested how Corbyn did in its “best PM” polling against Cameron and a number of possible other contenders for the Tory leadership. The LAB leader trailed the then PM by just 7% and was only 5% behind Boris. Perhaps not remarkably he had a 13% lead over Osborne and what’s interesting now is in the chart – Corbyn…
A guest slot on the contest for the LAB leadership The current fight for the leadership of the Labour Party seems so far to be presented as a choice between who will make the better leader, with the requirements of leadership being defined either as the person most in tune with the membership or the person most able to win votes from non-members. Nothing unusual about this, you might think. There seems to be very little difference on policy, as…
Seriously, what is going on with Trump and Russia? https://t.co/N6ySNILYMx — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 6, 2016 His lack of response make it easy for it to be portrayed in the most negative fashion Above is a new ad from the Clinton campaign seeking to raise doubts over Trump’s linkages with the Russian President Vladimir Putin. It seems to have been aimed at the Republican party establishment and I think it is very effective. The Putin element has increasingly become…
Next President 2016 LAB Leadership Contest
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…