Well, I agree that this is a positioning tactic from Labour that they probably had to make, in light of the threats they face. They need to at least do something to try to neutralise the issue. The j… (View Post)

Quite - but then a lot of us got burned by suggesting that it was historically exceptionally unlikely that an incumbent government with a majority of 80 would be replaced by a different majority gove… (View Post)

Maybe, but let’s not pretend the general language of the left in the past decade or so has in any way majored on this - often the opposite. There is a reason why people don’t feel Labour are in tune … (View Post)

I am trying to imagine the howls of apoplexy that would have come from the left if a Tory PM or Farage had tweeted something like that. I find Tough Sir Keir’s Twitter persona exceptionally cringe, b… (View Post)

I’m sure it was on the BBC last night where the presenter got halfway through explaining the Habemus Papam announcement and then forgot what the announcement actually was. If you’re covering one of t… (View Post)