I kid you not but last week on checking my old political betting spreadsheet I realised that I had wagered a significant sum on Starmer for next leader as far back in Dec 2015, when he was still a ve… (View Post)

Scrapping it at the same time as announcing an accelerated equivalent programme of direct infrastructure investment on things people actually want in the North and Midlands would work well politicall… (View Post)

"..... and we're going to try and climb it exactly the same way as we did last time, when we reached a cliff face and fell off." (View Post)

On 30th May Opinium had the Tories on 17%. By 12th December they had recovered to 45%. One of the party leaders changed in the interim, and it wasn't Corbyn. Pure luck? I don't like Johnson… (View Post)

The political vocabulary around Scottish secession is looking pretty outdated now. By the end of 2020, Scots will be living in a fully independent country as will the English, Welsh and N Irish. (View Post)