Politics from a 'Marginal Constituency’
As 2020 is just around the corner it feels appropriate to look back over the last decade and not just 2019. Perhaps because 2019 seems to have so politically exhausting … Continue reading Time for a Fresh Political Start in 2020? What will 2030 look like?
So today Jeremy Corbyn lost a vote of no confidence in his leadership but vowed to fight on…. After the drama of the resignation from his Shadow Cabinet over the … Continue reading No Confidence in Jeremy
As you may have gathered from my twitter and Facebook I have fortunately been slightly pre occupied over the last week with the Parliamentary Rugby World Cup. Ironically the event … Continue reading A Week IS a Long Time in Politics
It has been a roller coaster of a ride for Jeremy Corbyn since his election on Saturday and PMQs was the first time to see him in action in the … Continue reading New Style PMQs
12.37 – I have been gripped by my twitter timeline, the news, facebook. The fact is that much of the commentariat now believe Labour is now unelectable as does my … Continue reading Live Blog Updates on Labour Leadership
I know Westminster is often described as a political bubble and therefore anything that is said inside is somehow not worth the same as a ‘real discussion’ on the doorstep! … Continue reading Quick Dip Back Inside the Bubble
The ballot papers for the Labour leadership election have started to go out and I am looking forward to receieving mine and posting my first preference for Andy Burnham, and … Continue reading Labour Leadership Ballot Papers Out – it is now VERY real
Over the years campiagning on the doorstep I was always struck how many people were genuinely floating voters and ‘undecideds’. As we saw in the 2015 General Election people were … Continue reading I’m One of those Annoying Floating Voters
View from the Margins 