A tempest is coming
It’s usually about the economy, and the latest herald from the IMF is bad news for Labour as the screenshot from The Guardian shows. If Reeves follows the IMF’s suggestions then Labour’s popularity will sink lower. TSE
Size isn’t important, it’s what you do with it that counts
At the 2017 and 2019 elections Labour massively outnumbered the Tories in terms of members but Corbyn still managed to lose both elections and oversaw Labour’s worst election defeat since 1983 so there should be no automaticity that the new party’s membership means an election victory. I suspect at next year’s election Your Party will win fewer seats than the seats they will cost Labour. TSE
It turns out Nadine Dorries was wrong
I know it is gauche to keep on pointing out your successful tips but back in February I advised PBers to back Kemi Badenoch be Tory leader on the 21st of June 2025 at the stonking odds of 1/12 based on the missive of Nadine Dorries (and apologies to all those people whose lives no longer make any sense following the revelation than Nadine Dorries was wrong.) My view is Kemi Badenoch will be replaced next summer after she takes…
Monty Python cannot compete with Corbyn and Sultana
It’s easy to laugh at the inauspicious start Jeremy Corbyn & Zarah Sultana have made but long term they could cause Labour problems. Today Ipsos have reported Sir Keir Starmer has worse net ratings than Jeremy Corbyn so it is possible the new party picks up a substantial number of disaffected number of voters. The new party is going to have more MPs than Reform right now so that will also cause them to get more airtime than Corbyn &…
If you want to bet on the 2028 election with Trump & Obama as the candidates then you now can
William Hill have this market up and the talk about Donald Trump running for a third time, many expect the Trump enabling majority on SCOTUS to somehow parse the constitution to say Trump would be eligible. I don’t expect they will but if they did I suspect they would parse the constitution to say Barack Obama is ineligible to run for a third term such is my (lack of) faith in SCOTUS. Another reason why I think this bet is…
Let’s talk about Coldplay
The story my friends and colleagues have talked about the most in the past week is about the cheating couple at the Coldplay concert. I am not surprised that the Afghan data leak doesn’t feature higher. But these findings show why the events in Gaza are causing Starmer so much trouble. TSE
Donald Trump is having a Duke of York type problem
Ultimately I don’t think the Epstein storywill damage Donald Trump and I expect him to distract the nation with something else, 900% tariffs on all imports to the US, that sort of distraction technique. Mike Johnson has done a Boris Johnson by shutting down the House of Representatives until September to avoid a vote on releasing the Epstein files. A fun betting market would be where will Ghislaine Maxwell be on the 31st of December 2025, I can see a…
The voters have little faith in Farage in delivering reform
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