In a way that makes it worse. Labour haven't brought in any fresh thinking so they're reduced to re-announcing things the previous government didn't get around to doing. (View Post)

The speed it is currently going up I would be very surprised if it didn't exceed 3 million. The bar is, obviously, the revoke Article 50 petition. Which didn't propel Jo Swinson to Number 1… (View Post)

Effectively enforcing existing laws is difficult. Adding yet another [poorly-enforced] law is easy. (View Post)

Another Irish opinion poll, confirming that Fine Gael are having a bad election campaign. FF 21% (+2 since the last poll from this firm two weeks ago) SF 20% (+1) FG 19% (-6) Grn 4% (+1) Lab 4% (-1) … (View Post)

I think Labour are still the party of the trade union movement, but the vast majority of the trade unions had the shit kicked out of them during the Thatcher years. With the failure of a mass-mobiliz… (View Post)