Tonight’s cartoon on Trump and the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un
Trump versus Kim: Fake News or The Day After Tomorrow? Thank you again to Nicholas Leonard and Helen Cochrane.
Suddenly Oprah Winfrey becomes second favourite for next President
But does she want it? It never ceases to amaze me how quickly the American presidential election cycle seems to move. Donald Trump has only been in the White House since January last year and now all the talk is of the 2020 contest with a focus on who would be his Democratic opponent should he decide to run again. Following her widely publicised appearance at The Golden Globes on Sunday night in Los Angeles the talk is all about…
Toby Young quits so helping TMay by taking the attention away from her bungled reshuffle
Toby Young resigns as May’s universities adviser over ‘ill-judged’ sexist tweets https://t.co/sZbBp9VB3i pic.twitter.com/oFcKOcvje9 — BI UK Politics (@BIUK_Politics) January 9, 2018 You can’t plead youthful indiscretion for things in your late 40s It was inevitable, I suppose, after all the weekend hiatus that Toby Young was not going to be able to survive in his new role on the board of the new University regulator. It is an OK defence to plead youthful indiscretion for things that you did in…
After a chaotic day TMay’s position looks even weaker
Surely this could have been handled better Friends of Justine Greening tell me: “She should have absolutely expected to continue… she saw people who have been massively disloyal, others not competent, allowed to stay in Cabinet, and even given expanded briefs” — Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) January 8, 2018 Tory MP: “worst reshuffle I have ever witnessed in any party ever. None of it makes sense. It’s sabotage. I think someone’s trying to destroy her on the inside. I can’t think…
Meanwhile a slight increase in approval for the handling of Brexit negotiations but even less confidence about what’ll happen
In what I think is the first published political polling of 2018 the latest ORB Brexit trackers are out. There had been much expectation following the success of Theresa May’s talks in Brussels last month that this would lead to some improvement in the ratings. Well there has been a little bit of movement on the approval of the Brexit negotiations but nothing much and well within the margin of error. The other traffic tracker on the public’s Expectations what’s…
Reshuffling the TMay way – a cock-up over Grayling that will dominate the media narrative
BBC confirming Grayling appointment but advisers saying its speculation and he hasn't been to no10 yet. The Conservatives had tweeted a congrats, though its now disappeared. What is going on!? pic.twitter.com/8GDc0RE4kS — Anushka Asthana (@GuardianAnushka) January 8, 2018 This is making her conference speech look good
And so to re-shuffle day unless the media’s being very badly misled
At least it’ll divert attention from the Toby Young Tweets I can’t remember a reshuffle that has been trailed as long this one. On Saturday David Herdson very rightly set out the reasons why Theresa May should not be holding a reshuffle so soon after the general election. There have been others, like former Cameron PR boss, Craig Oliver, saying that the worst thing that a PM can do is let everybody know that a reshuffle is happening. Far far…
Betting on the year of Trump’s impeachment
The Democrats might not have the votes to convict but politically it might be helpful for them if the GOP vote to clear Trump. Paddy Power have a market up on the year that Donald Trump is impeached. The Paddy Power terms are very clear, this bet doesn’t require the Senate to vote to convict, just the House of Representatives to vote to successfully impeach The current polls indicate that the Democrats are on course to take the House later…