The world may be going to hell in a handcart and it can sometimes it can feel as if contemplating the future is a pointless exercise but here is your chance to show some faith in that future. Yes, it’s time for the 2026 PB Predictions Competition! To enter you simply need to post your answers to the following 12 questions onto the site before the end of January with the hashtag #competition somewhere in the post to help the…
This polling will help Kemi Badenoch, coupled with this interview with Kate McCann it’s not been a good day so far Robert Jenrick. TSE
The Telegraph report that [Robert Jenrick] also criticised Mrs Badenoch for failing to eject Liz Truss from the party. “The party has the power to kick her out. I have been one of the few Conservatives to explicitly castigate her mini-Budget, describing it as ‘cack-handed, careless and unconservative’. I would have kicked her out of the party. “Kemi has shown she can kick out those she doesn’t want. But not Liz Truss. The grounds would be obvious. “Truss’s disastrous tenure…
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One day I suspect soon we’re going to wake up and end up quoting former Governor of the Falkland Islands Sir Rex Hunt and say ”sounds like the buggers mean it. What I found interesting from a domestic political point of view was Kemi Badenoch saying she agrees with Sir Keir Starmer, Nigel Farage’s comments may come back to haunt him. TSE
Screenshot: From the website of The Times Whenever I try and understand Sir Keir Starmer’s government I am reminded of the quote by Sir Anthony Beever about Operation Market Garden, ‘it was a bad plan right from the start and right from the top’ and this story just reinforces that belief. Why would you needlessly cause yourself grief by sacking Wes Streeting, it might ensure a leadership contest does happen this year, this is in the days where there’s been…
Sadly this market doesn’t offer both sides of the bet so I am not interested, if he appeared it would give his opponents so many attack lines. I am also not sure the optics of Robert Jenrick being labelled as a traitor would be good, it really wouldn’t be a cunning stunt by Robert Jenrick. After her departure from Strictly Come Dancing I am mulling about backing Tess Daley at 8/1 to appear in the next series of Celebrity Traitors…
Even before Kemi Badenoch performed a political penectomy on Robert Jenrick I was dubious about the long term wisdom of Robert Jenrick defecting to Reform. He’s was the Tory party’s most effective politician in setting the agenda in a way Kemi Badenoch hasn’t been able to do so. Given Nigel Farage’s inability to work well with other, for example 40% of Reform MPs elected at the 2024 general election are no longer Reform MPs, but there’s many more examples I…