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Nicola Sturgeon should go for a second Independence referendum says Alastair Meeks

19/10/2016 TSE Comments 0 Comment

Embed from Getty Images A year ago I wrote about why Nicola Sturgeon was so chary of committing to a second referendum on independence. With the SNP hegemonic in Scotland but with Yes continuing to lag in the polls, I formed the view that Nicola Sturgeon would probably not seek an unequivocal mandate for a second referendum in the SNP’s manifesto for the 2016 Holyrood elections for fear of losing one. So it proved. What has happened since then? Lots. …

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Is Witney saving all its love for EU?

18/10/2016 TSE Comments 0 Comment

Liberal Democrats backed into 10/1 from 50/1 to win Thursday's Witney by-election after a rush of money… https://t.co/BKFhwPC3TT pic.twitter.com/s3Renglv4P — Ladbrokes Politics (@LadPolitics) October 18, 2016 Ladbrokes report that betting on the Witney by-election is the highest ever for a by-election. — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) October 18, 2016 This by-election could be pivotal to the type of Brexit Mrs May’s government tries and obtains, and if she decides to hold an early general election. If the Lib Dems do pull…

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The Brexiteers, Juncker’s fifth columnists?

18/10/2016 TSE Comments 0 Comment

How the Leavers may have ultimately signed the United Kingdom up for the single currency, the Schengen agreement, an EU Army, and a United States of Europe. Despite all the hype and bluster, the court case, and Parliamentary scrutiny, the United Kingdom will be leaving the European Union within the next few few years, and both will rapidly change because of Brexit. Without the United Kingdom inside the EU stopping and vetoing more federalist ideas nor without our influence advocating…

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The Nearest-run Thing – the BREXIT result was tight but so have other referendums

18/10/2016 TSE Comments 0 Comment

Sunil looks at close referendum outcomes “It has been a damned nice thing — the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life.” – those were the immortal words of one Arthur Wellesley (the Duke of Wellington) in the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815. I keep seeing comments on PB.com, and the wider MSM, about the EU Referendum being a close result, with the implication that it was the closest referendum result in human history,…

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Steven Woolf, who was odds on favourite to replace Farage, quits the party

17/10/2016 Mike Smithson Comments 0 Comment

UKIP's Steven Woolfe quits the party, with statement that it is 'ungovernable' without @Nigel_Farage at the helm https://t.co/x5PeXPkEVj — Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) October 17, 2016

Smith backer, Don Brind is amused to find himself on the same page as arch Corbynista Paul Mason

17/10/2016 Editor Comments 0 Comment

Labour needs a leader who can connect with working class voters “Don’t forget, It was Godfather Two that won the Oscar”. That was the cheering thought offered to a bunch of Saving Labour stalwarts who gathered to reflect on their failure to avert Jeremy Corbyn’s second leadership landslide. The unanimous view was that Labour still needs saving from electoral disaster through a change of leader. The Godfather analogy inspires the hope that the next time will be more successful. There…

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Get ready for another CON by-election defence if the Heathrow expansion is given the go-ahead

17/10/2016 Mike Smithson Comments 0 Comment

Sun Zac’s 23k majority looks strong One of the most predicted by-elections of this parliament, at Zac Goldsmith’s Richmond Park, looks set to come about if the government, as expected very shortly, announces that it is going ahead with the expansion at Heathrow. Zac, of course, was the Tory candidate in May’s London Mayoral election and would likely have resigned his seat then if he’d beaten Sadiq Khan. That wasn’t to be but Zac’s long-standing threat to resign if LHR3…

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Theresa May doesn’t have a Willie and it shows. She urgently and desperately needs a Willie in her government

16/10/2016 TSE Comments 0 Comment

https://twitter.com/b_judah/status/787616816243871744 If she loses her Chancellor so early in her Premiership, people might infer Mrs May is wholly unsuited to be Prime Minister According to Margaret Thatcher one of the prerequisites of being a successful Prime Minister was “Every Prime Minister needs a Willie.” She was referring to William Whitelaw, her deputy, as she further expanded, “Willie is a big man in character as well as physically. He wanted the success of the Government which from the first he accepted would be…

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