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The Johnson/Cummings power grab is in danger of undermining democracy – politicalbetting.com
The Johnson/Cummings power grab is in danger of undermining democracy – politicalbetting.com
UK government wants to seize control from:Local authoritiesParliament (via govt by decree)Judiciary (via Judicial Review 'reforms')'Activist' lawyersDevolved administrationsImpartial civil serviceDiplomatic corps EUSee the pattern yet?The Executive Power Project https://t.co/Xuow8LLojc
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Probably not Sunak after he's just shafted the North.
The Harrying of the North will not be forgotten.
Best. Video. Ever.
"The Lord Mandelson, denied the opportunity to become Foreign Secretary by the sad combination of a Prime Minister too weak to remove his Foreign Secretary and, equally, a Foreign Secretary too weak to challenge the Prime Minister, has gone around instead collecting titles and even whole Departments to add to his name.
His title now adds up to, “The right hon. the Baron Mandelson of Foy in the county of Herefordshire and Hartlepool in the county of Durham, First Secretary of State, Lord President of the Privy Council and Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills”. It would be no surprise to wake up in the morning and find that he had become an archbishop—[Laughter]. That is exactly what happened with Cardinal Wolsey."
They will be run out of London in the next election.
https://youtu.be/LYlqql38XkY
But I reckon that's six Lab gains in the bag as a minimum.
Sunak would also make the necessary compromises with the EU for a FTA most likely Boris would not eg on state aid
https://docs.cdn.yougov.com/5hz2esvj6l/TheTimes_BudgetResults_200709.pdf
You've got no chance, not with the impact that would have on house prices
These are not the usual rebellious lot, these are not people wanting to ignore what the government is telling them to do to control the virus.
This really has cut through far deeper than many outside the region can recognise just yet.
Bolton NE = Tory majority of 378
Leigh = Tory majority of 1,965
Bury South = Tory majority of 402
Bury North = Tory majority of 105
Cheadle = Tory majority of 2,336.
Of course Labour are not ready yet - but in time.
Just over 2% swing to take all of those, should be easy even on a bad night.
R is still above 1 - just. A few days ago. Now it may or may not have touched 1. But that is exactly the point at which knocking the R number down 0.2 or so would have a big effect in rapidly reducing cases. And dead people.
Problem is that the Tories are so unpopular in London already and they're going backwards. And Bailey is hopeless.
Even in 2019 Labour didn't really go backwards in London, there's simply no way the Tories make any progress there in 2024. I bet there are good odds on Labour/Lib Dev gains in London
These people are idiots lol
EDIT: Oh it was Toby Young. No surprises.
I have to say fighting the North and Burnham (who is quite popular in the North from what I understand - I am sure Leigh would have stayed with Labour if he was still the MP), is an interesting approach when they're trying to hold these new seats.
Give these voters a chance to pop back over to Labour, very kind of them
Mind you, not a surprise with Rasputin. He's not even a member.
Don't @ me.
MY understanding is that the biggest crash in income is in annual tickets - that used to be a nice, reliable source of income for TfL.... Multi month ones as well.....
Khan was on track to run a surplus in a few years without this grant, before COVID. He was a lot more economically competent than Johnson ever was.
Of course we can forget how much of TfL is covered by fares compared to every other country and this would still be nowhere close to that - Tories should be proud
But my question remains, why would Londoners blame Khan for that?
London has just over 3 times the population of Manchester.
Does Manchester get £230m / year subsidy for the public transport ?
Does it bollocks.
Metrolink has to break even and the buses are privatised.
People will look for grievance and elevate division regardless as it makes a good story, and I do think regional divisions have been overplayed in recent weeks, but from the headlines the government seems to have made it more of a reality for some reason.
Of course Sunak's numbers are also trending down - and Brown didn't stay popular for long
https://www2.politicalbetting.com/index.php/archives/2020/09/13/ladbrokes-are-offering-66-1-on-a-269-electoral-college-tie-should-i-take-this-bet/
London's is still absolutely minimal compared to any other comparable network abroad
Cummings is a Labour plant
*Tin foil hat off*
This is the issue, you can win one election (well we will see with Trump) on stick it to the man, throw out the rules but then you have to win again
Kahn would be able to turbo charge his victim status, and get in the standard every week attacking the government for f-ing things up and the inevitable strikes.
Might not be the worst thing in the world for the mayoralty actually, if the DfT is able to go full austerity and cut costs to the bone (and take the inevitable industrial action) with the cover of an 80 seat tory majority. Then a future labour gov can devolve a profitable organisation back to the GLA.
100%
But the southern media, southern government with no power in the north none of this will ever change.
But it explains the huge divide in this country.
Labour minority Government with C&S.
I can absolutely see why the North voted Tory in 2019 - but they have to be nuts to vote for them again.
Many current Tory seats in the North and Wales and Midlands were won by Kinnock in 1992 but lots of London Labour seats and a few southern Labour and LD seats like St Albans and Canterbury and Oxford West and Abingdon were won by Major in that same election