The Strange Rebirth of Liberal Unionism

The Strange Rebirth of Liberal Unionism

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What is Liberal Unionism? Is the current CON Government, actually a Liberal Unionist one?  Wikipedia has a history of the Liberal Unionist Party:. The most well-known Liberal Unionist arguably was Joseph Chamberlain, father of Neville, and for 19 days leader of the Opposition in 1906 after Balfour lost his seat in Manchester as part of the disastrous Conservative election defeat. Conservatives have called themselves Unionist for a long period and indeed it was the official name until the 1970s but…

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The latest powerful ad from the Republican organisation that is trying to stop Trump

The latest powerful ad from the Republican organisation that is trying to stop Trump

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One of the really interesting features of the White House election that takes place four months from today is the series of ads from the Lincoln Project – a Republican body that is seeking to do everything it can to undermine the Republican incumbent, Donald Trump. As well as the cost of paid for ads being screened in key states they are getting a huge free distribution via YouTube where so far today this latest one has had nearly 0.75m…

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The WH2020 betting and polling continue to look good for Biden

The WH2020 betting and polling continue to look good for Biden

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Above is the latest betting chart on the current race for the White House which has seen a big decline in the chances of a Trump victory with a corresponding increase in Joe Biden’s position As you would expect the chart is very similar to the trend in the polls where the current RCP average has Biden 9.8% ahead. It is important to stress that in the national polls Joe Biden is doing markedly better than Hillary Clinton was at…

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In betting terms the Moran-Davey battle in the LD race looks close but there’s little to base things on

In betting terms the Moran-Davey battle in the LD race looks close but there’s little to base things on

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In the aftermath of Jo Swinson defeat in her constituency at the December 2019 general election the Lib Dems decided to postpone the process for selecting her replacement until after the planned 2020 May local elections. Well coronavirus put paid to that plan and then the party decided that the leadership election should take place a year on in the spring of 2021. That proved to be very controversial within the membership and a revised timetable was agreed with nominations…

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TMay is becoming big problem for the Johnson/Cummings regime

TMay is becoming big problem for the Johnson/Cummings regime

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The former PM – now her successor’s leading Tory critic The latest intervention by TMay in the Commons above isn’t the first and won’t be the last time that the former PM is going to make known her views of the current leadership. She’s particularly furious about the sacking of senior civil servant instigated by the lockdown deviant, Dom Cummings. I thought today’s TMay’s move was smart because she focussed on the issue of national security raising doubts about the…

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How Bernie Sanders complicates the betting on November’s US Senate elections

How Bernie Sanders complicates the betting on November’s US Senate elections

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He may have stood the for Democratic WH2020 nomination but he’s not part of the party in the US Senate The other really big election taking place in the United States on November 2nd is for the US Senate where currently the Republicans have 53 of the 100 seats. If indeed Trump is ousted on that day the Democratic victory will only be really meaningful if the party takes the Senate as well. This is going to be far from…

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