Politics from a 'Marginal Constituency’
After quite a bit of shadow boxing we finally got the list of Labour leadership candidates yesterday and with Jeremy Corbyn making the final ballot with seconds to spare adding … Continue reading Labour Leadership Runners – Corbyn Makes It
Until I sat down to write this I hadn’t realised how many Labour Party leadership elections I had been through. Like a lot of things in life I still regard … Continue reading Leadership Election Veteran – So Seeking YOUR vote..
In a social media age my timeline this week was filled with new MPs ‘selfie’ photos of them swearing into the new Parliament. Clearly they were ‘official’ selfies from some … Continue reading Parliament Returns – but not for All
I have posted on a regular basis my observations about political discourse and the book Don’t Think of an Elephant. Having just read another round of articles in the press … Continue reading It’s all about the narrative
William Keegan in the Guardian sets it out here. In this helpful article William Keegan finally sets to bed a number of the myths about the spending/overspending debate – the … Continue reading We have given up the economic arguments
The first drama of the Labour leadership election was the surprise announcement that one of the favourites Chuka Umanna has withdrawn. Along with the non-entry of Dan Jarvis into the … Continue reading Chuka Umanna Withdrawal
Like most commentators I was spectacularly wrong about the outcome of the election last week, so it would seem very foolish to start to speculate about the outcome of the … Continue reading The Journey to 2020
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View from the Margins 