Who’ll be out first – Bercow or Cameron?

Who’ll be out first – Bercow or Cameron?

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How’s the Speaker/PM stand-off going to end? I’m just back from the longest break I’ve had from PB since it’s establishment in 2004 and am only now catching up on what’s happened in the past week and a half. The above encounter last Wednesday showing the readiness of the speaker to cut off the prime minister while in full flow in his final response to the opposition leader strikes me as being unprecedented which could have long lasting consequences. Certainly…

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It’s Grim Up North (especially for Lib Dems)

It’s Grim Up North (especially for Lib Dems)

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Click for video A guest piece from Harry Hayfield Back in the early 1990’s, a band calling themselves the KLF (or the Justified Ancients of Mu Mu or the JAMMS), launched a series of records that they hoped would define the 1990’s in terms of music – they had several number 1’s including a duet with Tammy Wynette and even a version of the Doctor Who theme. They then took a slight tangent and started producing works reflecting their political…

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How is your betting “P&L” six months in?

How is your betting “P&L” six months in?

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… and what the Sundays are saying We’re now halfway through the year, so this might be a good time to take stock of the betting “profit and loss” for the year. Are you up, down, or flat? And what has been your rate of return for 2011 to date, if you calculate it? I’m probably in the second tier of PB punters– it tends to be a few hundred here and there, rather than thousands. So, in terms of…

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Will the other Ed be leader within the year?

Will the other Ed be leader within the year?

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Is it worth the 14/1 on offer?   Ed Miliband’s decision to publicly criticise and oppose the striking public sector workers this week was a brave and for him, a potentially dangerous one. It didn’t help that Miliband’s own advocacy of the line was less than convincing, as HenryG pointed out in yesterday’s thread. It’s true that the unions involved aren’t affiliated to the Labour Party but they do contain many Labour supporters (all the more with the Lib Dems involved in…

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… and Morus on Miliband

… and Morus on Miliband

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Is anyone satisfied with his leadership? With Nick Clegg’s Liberal Democrats receiving a pitiful 2.2% and losing their deposit in the Inverclyde by-election, and David Cameron’s government inspiring multi-union strikes and protests over pensions reform, it is simply astonishing that Ed Miliband is the major party leader under the most pressure at the moment. With many on the Left furious that he has taken the line that “the strikes are wrong”, he has not helped his case with the single…

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Was this worse than Paxman v Howard?

Was this worse than Paxman v Howard?

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Click to play Henry G on Friday In defence of Michael Howard it was rottweiler interviewer Jeremy Paxman who made him repeat himself 14 times. What is Ed Miliband’s excuse? This is a truly weak and bizarre spectacle and entirely self-inflicted. There is a growing feeling that ‘he’s not up to the job’. On a wider point I don’t think Ed Miliband appreciates how much damage he has done to himself over his weak folding over industrial action. If he…

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