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Meanwhile in the LAB leadership battle Andy Burnham sends a text to party members

13/6/2015 Mike Smithson Comments 0 Comment

Everyone in politics says you should try to give a straight answer to a straight question. pic.twitter.com/etngSF46N4 — Hopi Sen (@hopisen) June 13, 2015 He needs to word his messages better than this As Lynton Crosby always says – message matters most and we saw the success of that in the final weeks of the GE15 campaign. So it’s against this that we should judge the 3 or 4 still in the race for the Labour leadership. The Labour blogger…

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David Herdson says the government should call the SNP’s bluff on full fiscal autonomy

12/6/2015 David Herdson Comments 0 Comment

Itâ€™s time to slay Holyroodâ€™s bogeyman The referendum was never going to be the end of the story and neither was the declaration of the unionist parties to implement the recommendations of the Smith commission. The closeness of the vote last September and the unprecedented landslide this May have understandably prompted the SNP to demand a lot more. It would be foolhardy for Westminster to refuse. The amendment that the SNP have put down is quite smart, not demanding a…

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Meanwhile in that other party leadership contest…Stodge on the Lib Dem race

12/6/2015 Mike Smithson Comments 0 Comment

Norman Lamb or Tim Farron? Next Wednesday Iâ€™m intending to attend the Hustings for the Liberal Democrat leadership election in London. As in 2007, I go to the event undecided between the two candidates and will listen with interest to what they have to say and how they see the future of the Party. Paddy Power currently have Tim Farron at 1/10 with Norman Lamb at 5/1 and while for many the choice of Liberal Democrat leader may be as…

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Why Labour needs to be as ruthless with failing leaders as the Tories

12/6/2015 Mike Smithson Comments 0 Comment

The latest from PB Guest slot writer – Don Brind Itâ€™s Thursday morning in Downing Street: The door to number 10 opens and the manager of the press office is striding down the road with a folder under his arm. Iâ€™m there as a BBC political producer and I know him well. I catch him up and with a little bit of persuasion I get my hands of the press release heâ€™s taking to the Press gallery in the House…

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Local By-Election Preview including the big election in Tower Hamlets

11/6/2015 Editor Comments 0 Comment

Wallington South on Sutton (Lib Dem defence) Result of council at last election (2014): Liberal Democrats 45, Conservatives 9 (Liberal Democrat majority of 36) Result of ward at last election (2014) : Emboldened denotes elected Liberal Democrats: 1,593, 1,558, 1,221 (37%) Conservatives: 825, 649, 571 (19%) United Kingdom Independence Party: 694 (16%) Keep Our St. Helier Hospital Party: 377 (9%) Labour: 374, 358, 283 (9%) Green Party: 301, 274 (7%) English Democrats: 110 (3%) Candidates duly nominated: Andy Beadle (UKIP),…

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We are more than six months away from the primaries yet the betting suggests that WH16 is almost all settled

11/6/2015 Mike Smithson Comments 0 Comment

Another Clinton-Bush encounter? Maybe. Maybe not With all the focus on the British general election and its aftermath we’ve tended to ignore what’s set to be massive political betting event – the 2016 White House race. What I like about them is the whole series of events and elections that lead to the first Tuesday in November when the voters actually decide. With Barack Obama due to step down we have serious battles in prospect for both the Democratic party…

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The LAB leadership: Liz Kendall is taking the lion’s share of those MPs who voted for David Miliband in 2010

11/6/2015 Mike Smithson Comments 0 Comment

A pointer to the the ballot? As we all know back in the 2010 Labour leadership contest Ed’s elder brother, David, was the front runner and chalked up biggish leads with both Labour MPs and the party membership. With the contest for LAB MP nominations now in full flght LabourList is keeping an updated list of current MP declarations and, very helpfully, is showing which candidate those who were MPs then voted for in the September 2010 contest. The breakdown…

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Henry G Manson: Tom Watson should be odds-on for LAB deputy

10/6/2015 Mike Smithson Comments 0 Comment

PB’s “Labour insider” gives his view I recently explained why I think Andy Burnham shouldnâ€™t be priced as the odds on favourite for the Labour leadership contest. Looking at the Deputy race, I think the opposite is the case and that the current favourite Tom Watson should in fact be a good deal shorter. Watson is stand-out value at 6/4 with William Hill and Ladbrokes – and should be closer to 1/2. There is currently a big field of rivals…

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