I am slightly disappointed in Starmer’s answer, I cannot imagine anybody not having a favourite Christmas film he should have gone with The Muppet Christmas Carol. At least he didn’t say Die Hard, a film released in July 1988, was a Christmas film. TSE
We all expected a nail-biter that would take a week to decide. In the end, it wasn’t even that close. The Democrats are going to have do some serious soul searching and here are some of the lessons, I think they need to learn. NB: one area I won’t focus on is the economy. It definitely cost the Democrats but is something that was less in their control (The Fed like the BOE was slow to raise rates when inflation…
If you are one of the thirteen per cent please explain yourselves in the comments and let us not even get started on the eleven per cent who went for mayo. TSE
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With the revelation that King’s coronation cost an obscene £72 million there’s been a backlash but my 2024 bingo card didn’t have the Daily Star joining the republican movement nor did it have the normally obsequious Daily Mail admitting the republican movement has some all-too persuasive arguments. As Liz Truss can attest, once you’ve got the Daily Star after you then things usually turn out sub-optimally. TSE
I just cannot see the logistics of how Nigel Farage becomes Tory leader before 2026, nor do I expect a clamour within the volunteer party where Farage’s shilling for Putin goes down badly. So if you fancy tying up your money for just over a year for a ten percent return then this is the market for you. TSE
Whilst the best PM has an incumbency bias that more than half of don’t say either Starmer and Badenoch bodes ill for a decent turnout at the election. Given the past few months he has had Starmer will be delighted that on this metric he is preferred to Badenoch. TSE
I don’t think this polling says anything personally about Starmer and Badenoch but more about their parties. As we saw with Jeremy Corbyn it is very hard for Labour to replace their leader if they aren’t willing to go. For the Tories the reason more people think Badenoch won’t make it to the election is that since 2001 only one Tory leader has lasted more then thirty-eight months in the job and that was the exceptional David Cameron. Ladbrokes has…