It's a sign of the weakness of the parliamentary left caucus / Socialist Campaign Group that Bell Ribeiro-Addy could only muster 24 MP nominations, although a stronger left candidate may have got a f… (View Post)

It's nothing to do with MPs now. They've just decided the two nominations. Who wins depends on CLPs, party members and affiliates. The outcome is fairly unpredictable. (View Post)

So, have I got this right: Rayner didn't take legal advice about stamp duty when she needed to. Farage did take legal advice about stamp duty when he didn't need to. (View Post)

Thornberry won't win. Her constituency is adjacent to Starmer's - not a good look to have a North London Leader and Deputy. It will be Phillipson or McGovern, I think. Powell is too dull, and the oth… (View Post)

I don't have a problem with the BBC giving a lot of coverage to Reform, given the trajectory of the opinion polls. But I do object to that coverage lacking analysis and sometimes being positively syc… (View Post)