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Clearly I’m not very good at consistently blogging. I seem to have overlooked a Covid pandemic and the final downfall of our worst Prime Minister – Johnson.
I don’t know how my ramblings fell by the wayside as I’ve been more exercised by post 2019 politics than at any time over the last decade – save for the 2016 Brexit vote.
I cheered the downfall of Johnson. I had Covid when the curtain…
Boris Johnson faces Tory wrath as party slumps in shock poll
screams the Observer headline on my return to the news.
Party in despair, senior MP says, as Labour draws level in wake of exam chaos and Covid U-turns it follows up with!
Clearly a lot has happened over the Summer and I can’t hope to catch up with it all. But as I return to writing I can’t help but notice what a shambles we have as a…
There has been so much material to write about over the last two weeks that I have had the opposite of writers block – writers overload. Instead of finding time to keep up and dig a little deeper into what has been happening under the cover of the Covid crisis I have resorted to quick comments and retweets of the material on twitter over…
I don’t often write about ‘process’ stories as the point of this blog is to understand and connect politics into building a coalition of voters for a Labour government. I know most people don’t follow the details of government structures and policy making. But this is important. Cummings intends to implement his rambling blogs and we will suffer the consequences of this revolution.
The election victory is just the start for the Tories. With a slim majority of just 12 MPs this is going to be a tough slog for Cameron.
Not only will much of the Parliament be dominated by austerity and a European referendum, but he will have to contend with not having his coalition party partners to hide behind for not making tough / Tory policies. The trouble makes (bastards as John Major…
The Labour Together report is an incredibly comprehensive look at the 2019 election from Labours perspective, but also looks further back on trends with the ominous warning being that there is no guarantee these trends will turn around of any natural accord. It’s the stark reality that complacency could take us from a grievous strike to a death blow for our party.
The Prime Minister announced a raft of measures yesterday which to all intents and purposes sounded like the signal to the end of Lockdown from the 4th July. (BBC Summary of the Measures)
It has felt from the start that political decision making has dominated this crisis whilst Ministers have tried to hide by the awful phrase – led by the Science. You will…
I was astounded by the quality of the Labour together 2019 Election Review. An honest, detailed, evidence-based and robust document which is a very valuable step towards understanding where we should go as a party. But there a couple of conclusions in the report I didn’t necessarily agree with.
Firstly a note of optimism.
The most telling statistics in this review were firstly the…
As you can imagine this website has been waiting for the Labour Together Review for some time with eager anticipation. After the catastrophic defeat in 2019, which many of us had predicted, I was hoping for a period of clam and honest reflection that faced the true scale of what had happened.
Sadly the initial responses were poor and predictable – the Corbynites even tried to claim some sort…
Westminster being torn apart by this government
