Thanks to Nicholas Leonard and Helen Cochrane. This made me laugh which is always a good starting point. Meanwhile are we edging to a challenge to TMay? Watch this space. Mike Smithson Follow @MSmithsonPB Tweet
What are government policies for? If you were to ask the average member of the public, they would probably tell you that they were to set the best way possible for running the country on the particular topic at hand. Of course, that hasn’t always or even usually been the main point of government policies. In most countries in most eras, government policies have mostly been designed to benefit the interests of an elite. Kings rarely thought about the impact…
SUNDAY TIMES LEAD: ‘Brexiteer Plot’ by @ShippersUnbound pic.twitter.com/70OGZyDhvO — Neil Henderson (@hendopolis) February 3, 2018 It’s either a/the customs union or remaining Prime Minister Mrs May. Until Mrs May voluntarily stands down or is forced out we’re going to be subjected to stories like this. What is interesting is that it is the more fundamentalist Brexiteers that are revolting. I suspect Mrs May will propose a much more pragmatic deal than these Brexiteers are prepared to accept, so taking the…
Wikipedia How the parties are faring north of the border Next week I’m off to Scotland the part of the UK that played a critical part in the outcomes of GE2015 and GE2017. For since the IndyRef in September 2014 there has been a huge amount of turbulence in Scottish politics. At the last two general elections there’ve been more seats changing hands there than anywhere else in the UK. Initially the failure to win independence in September 2014 saw…
Both the timetable and the politics make it all but impossible It’s the Remainer dream that won’t go away. Indeed, it’s as if they’ve never woken up to the strong coffee the electorate served on the fateful night in June 2016. They want to believe that the fight is still on and continue to make the case that they should have made better before EURef1. It isn’t still on and the dream is just that: an hallucination in the dark….
The lead by Brexit Wrong over Brexit Right is highest ever The details of the latest YouGov Brexit tracker is out and the striking feature is the high number of Conservative voters who are now saying that the referendum decision was wrong. Last month 22% of CON voters took this view while in this latest poll with the fieldwork this week the figure rose to 28%. As can be see as well 8% of Leave voters now believe that the…
Falmouth, Smithick on Cornwall (Lab defence) Result: Lab 643 (60% +20% on last time), Con 184 (17% -7% on last time), Lib Dem 184 (17% -2% on last time), Green 57 (5% -11% on last time) Labour HOLD with a majority of 459 (43%) on a swing of 13.5% from Con to Lab Pallion on Sunderland (Lab defence) Result: Lib Dem 1,251 (54% +50% on last time), Lab 807 (35% -16% on last time), Con 126 (5% -8% on last…
On this week’s podcast, Keiran and Leo analyse the latest round of British Election Study data and ask ‘was there really a ‘youthquake’ at the 2017 General Election and does it matter? Keiran and Leo also look at the role that gender played in the 2017 vote and uncover some striking data that suggests we might be getting public opinon on Brexit all wrong. Find all this and more on this week’s show. Follow this week’s podcasters: Follow @KeiranPedley Follow…