Starmer must be so happy tonight
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The Truss premiership gets more impressive with each passing day
Last night’s vote loss on the contaminated blood scandal is further proof of Sunak lacking the political judgment and antennae that God gave pistachio nuts, Sunak must wish he could dominate the way Truss did with the Commons. TSE
Just one in ten Brits oppose an early election
I think this is a sign that the electorate really want to be rid of the Tories, but that’s just my take on things. TSE
Could Liz Truss improve Tory fortunes?
The answer, of course, to the question in the headline is no, but it does increase pressure on Sunak if he now seen worse than Liz Truss with key voters, this is a long term trend, as Bloomberg observe Just 59% of voters who backed the Conservatives under Boris Johnson at the 2019 election are sticking with the party under Sunak, the report found. That’s down from 74% in August 2022, and from 63% in the aftermath of Truss’s disastrous “mini-budget” in…
Are We All Trussites Now?
LostPassword asks did Liz Truss end the Thatcherite consensus? One of the aspects of the Thatcherite consensus less often credited to the 1980s Prime Minister who looms large over British politics, was the practice of increasing the rate of Employee* National Insurance Contributions (NICs) and cutting the rate of Income Tax. In 1979, when Thatcher took office, the rate of NICs was 6.5% and the basic rate of Income Tax was 33%. When a tearful Margaret was ousted from Downing…
Brits love white powder
As somebody who lives on a city that is built on seven hills, regularly traverses the Pennines, and drives rear wheeled drive vehicles I am not one to love the snow but I can understand why many others do. As we approach the festive season, the forces of reason and enlightenment win but barely in the below polling. TSE
Nikki Haley could be the Republican that stops Trump
We are now just six and a half weeks away from the first actual voting WH2024 that will decide who wins the American presidential election next November. The primares start on the 15th of January when the Republicans in Iowa could be ready to push their support behind Nikki Haley who as the table RCP above shows has taken significant favorability lead over both Trump and Biden. What we do know is that these opening States can have a huge…
Sweet Swingback’s Baadasssss Song
Image: Opinium’s methodology change from February 2022 As we head into the final stretch before the General election, the polls loom larger in the minds of pundits and political punters. The basic polling question is a hypothetical one “If there was a General Election tomorrow, how would you vote?” When we all know that the real election is months away, and people will change their minds. As the wider public increases interest polls are likely to move, the fabled “swingback”…