The Greens and LibDems. That's the problem with this zero-sum approach. In an earlier period of realignment, in the mid to late 'nineties, the Lib Dems were, broadly, a less metropolitan pa… (View Post)

Mandelson's deft political touch clearly deserted him a long time ago. " Lord Mandleson, a former MP for Hartlepool and one of the architects of New Labour, said the party had to embrace “B… (View Post)

Some amusing and fairly well-observed stuff from Marina Hyde. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/07/humiliation-hartlepool-smalltown-detective-di-starmer "Wherever he campaigned … (View Post)

This is partly why a grand coalition may be the only long-term answer for parties to the left of the Tories in this country, and their many varying voters, if they don't want Tory rule to become… (View Post)

I would say the reality is somewhat more complex. Corbyn's 2017 near-miss was genuinely a surprise to a lot of people on the right of the party, and it did have something to do with the unambigu… (View Post)