I have kept a keen eye on South Shields this afternoon. From the North Shields bank, South Shields was looking its best on a glorious sunny day. (View Post)

Watching the Parliament Channel, I've been struck by how many Labour MPs seem to be mainly interested in emoting about "benefits", and mouthing inanities like "bedroom tax". "… (View Post)

It is the Left in British politics which has inflicted the most damage on Meritocracy with the replacement of Grammar schools by (often bog-standard) Comprehensives, the dumbing down of education and… (View Post)

I suppose one could vote for a party - Labour - which repeatedly plays the "racist" card [usually now against the offspring of those who fought to avoid a foreign invasion in the 1940s] and… (View Post)

Harold Wilson won two working majorities in 5 elections, and lost one. (View Post)