It is a good idea, in politics, always to expect the unexpected. Conventional wisdom is problematic. Who would have predicted John Major? Or Corbyn? And it is particularly problematic when, as now, there are a large number of expected outcomes, each of them with a small enough probability for commentators to pooh-pooh some or all… Continue reading The Independent Group will kill, or cure, Labour
Month: February 2019
Wavertree CLP’s rotten leadership shines a light on the party’s
It has been said during the last week, and not by Labour-watchers accustomed to hyperbole, that this might have been the week when a party’s split became irrevocable. While that may or may not be true, it is difficult to remember a time when the parliamentary party was in such disarray, even in the mad… Continue reading Wavertree CLP’s rotten leadership shines a light on the party’s