After watching the TV debate between Jeremy Corbyn and Boris
Johnson last night, I concluded that they don’t really achieve much. The
support of both leaders is partisan, and it is unlikely that someone who is a
fervent believer in Johnson is going to switch allegiance and vice versa.
By most sensible accounts, Johnson is the one with the decent
lead, so all he had to do is undertake his instructions from Dominic Cummings
and he would be ...
There was a period last week where I thought a lot of
people were thinking along the same lines as me.
That thought process would be something along the lines of, ‘I am not so sure if Corbyn can deliver his manifesto and whether it will even work but, sod it, I’d rather that than the other option of self-serving populism’.
Well, it seems I am wrong, or I think I am wrong anyway; the Labour campaign has been moderate and they have ...
After the first week of the election campaign, it is
difficult to make a call on where it is heading.
Having had numerous conversations with people the general consensus
is that Boris Johnson is not liked, mainly because he is a liar. He has almost
certainly been corrupted by the type of people you wouldn’t want to be
corrupted by.
However, these same people cannot bring themselves to contemplate life under a
Jeremy Corbyn government. ...
I can’t help but imagine the scenes if the Labour Party were
refusing to release information suggesting they were being infiltrated by
Russian money and using their cyber intelligence to corrupt elections?
There is plenty of speculation, but no one quite knows what is going on with the Conservative Party and a 50-page dossier compiled by British intelligence services regarding Russian infiltration into the establishment. This is because ...
Its been a funny old week. The Tories have opened their election campaign with their honest new strapline saying that we deserve better than them. Jeremy Corbyn has had people nodding along at his policies whilst saying they could never vote for him. Brexit didn’t happen, Britain didn’t explode (although Mark Francois might have done?) and Boris Johnson didn’t die in a ditch, which is terribly unfortunate. Polls suggest that Johnson, ...