Month: June 2017

For some MPs and commentators, suddenly everything has changed about Labour’s situation. But what, exactly? Did we win, as Emily Thornberry thought we did? Has Jeremy Corbyn now become the nation’s best choice for prime minister? Is it just “one more heave”? Hmm. Not really. In fact, dig a bit deeper and we might observe… Continue reading Reality check: a winning party needs to win, you know, seats

Yes, yes, I know I was predicting that Labour would do much worse than they actually did. And it seems Corbyn did enthuse the young and get them to the polling station. But it’s not so simple as that. And since they are not forming a government, any sense of achievement is relative; relative to the… Continue reading How on earth did Labour get this FEW seats?

I have voted Labour (actually about 10 days ago, by post) and, for the first time in my life, with no enthusiasm whatsoever. I voted for the party under Ed Miliband, knowing he was unlikely to win but at least thinking he was a vaguely decent human being, who might just be able to learn… Continue reading Self-indulgence has led Britain to this dismal point

A week left of campaigning, and Britain’s political race to the bottom is in full flight. Polls all over the shop; but narrowing at the end, as they invariably do. In different ways, the Tory and Labour campaigns are spectacularly failing to enthuse the electorate. The Tories, for whom the election has always been theirs… Continue reading The final straight of two terrible campaigns