The Westminster attacks: It’ll be some time before we get the full picture
We do know that a policemen was killed bringing current death toll to 2
Reports two people shot outside Parliament
'Explosions' outside UK parliament, two men 'shot by cops' https://t.co/8DoNibqIn6 pic.twitter.com/rht5gnv3yB — The Sun (@TheSun) March 22, 2017 Firearms incident near #Parliament: What we know so far pic.twitter.com/0GP5EeFRaK — Sky News (@SkyNews) March 22, 2017 There was an "almighty crash" as a vehicle hit the railings outside Parliament, a witness tells Sky News pic.twitter.com/ubgSsntZPm — Sky News (@SkyNews) March 22, 2017 Let’s hope this doesn’t escalate TSE
The great REMAIN LEAVE divide reflected in the areas that have Premiership football clubs
Footballing success comes to the places that voted against BREXIT Correlation, of course, is not causation but we hear so much these days about whether a particular area voted LEAVE or REMAIN that I thought it might be interesting to examine how this worked out in the English Premiership League. I’ve taken the BREXIT splits in the local authority areas where each of the 20 current members of the league are. Note that the two Manchester clubs have different numbers…
Don’t expect a Street Coronation in the West Midlands Mayoral election
A look at the Mayoral elections betting ‘The young princes who now stride the parade ground with the confidence born of aristocratic schooling can never be afraid. They never have been. Like latter day Pushkins drilled in the elite academy of Brownian blitzkrieg, they are bursting with their sense of destiny.’ Is part of a text that will be studied throughout history as one of the great polemics of our era. Anyway, not withstanding there are a couple of mayoral…
BREXIT backer George Galloway enters the race for Manchester Gorton – which voted 62-38 for REMAIN
LAB campaigners fear he could split their Gorton vote The controversial ex-LAB and RESPECT MP, George Galloway has announced that he’s standing in the Manchester Gorton by-election. He’s no stranger to shock by-election victories as we saw five years ago in Bradford West. On the face of it even in these troubled Labour times Gorton looked a pretty safe bet for a LAB hold. At GE2015 the party held the seat with a whopping 57% majority making it one of…
First polls give the French Presidential debate to Macron and he remains the strong odds-on favourite
It’s been a big night in the French Presidential election with the first major TV debate between the top five candidates. Ahead of the event the assumption had been that the contender most at risk was the young centrist independent and odds-on betting favourite, Emmanuel Macron. The event went on for a staggering three and a half hours. An Elabe poll afterwards asked viewers who they though was the most convincing. According to Reuters the split was Macron 29%, the…
Osborne’s new job: Rewarding failure
Don Brind on the ex-chancellor’s extra job “He wrecked the economy and he’ll wreck anything he gets his hands on.” — the verdict on the new editor of the London Evening Standard from a Tory activist vox popped at the Conservative Spring Forum in Cardiff by Channel Four’s Michael Crick. Brutal as it was, that judgement on the erstwhile Chancellor George Osborne didn’t, in my opinion, go far enough. Not only was Osborne a failure as a Chancellor but he…
As ICM reports another gigantic CON lead Number 10 moves to squash the “snap election” speculation
ICM/Guardian poll CON 45% (+1) LAB 26% (-2) UKIP 10% (-1) LD 9% (+1) GRN: 4% (-1) This morning there have been two significant announcements from number 10. Firstly article 50 will be invoked next week on March 29th. Secondly it is being made very clear that there will be no general election. This is how the Guardian is reporting the latter: “…In the past Theresa May has said repeatedly that she has not plans to call an early general…