Labour have been in power for 100 days. The reason why we fixate on the first 100 days is because of Napoleon; 100 days was how long it took for him to escape from Elba, return to France, seize the country, become Emperor (again), invade Belgium and lose the battle of Waterloo. Having come to … Read more
No apologies for a boring bit of health policy This week we heard the full extent of the crisis in the NHS. Lord Ara Darzi’s report listed in detail the impact of 14 years of Conservative Secretaries of State for Health. Thousands died waiting for treatment as waiting lists rose. He highlighted lack of money … Read more
The Conservatives are going to force a vote on Labours plans to cut the Winter Fuel Allowance next week. Some Labour MPs are going to rebel. Older voters are furious and some younger ones too. Politically this is terrible so why are Labour cutting the pensioner winter fuel allowance? This looks exactly the wrong policy … Read more
JD Vance is the latest in a series of awful Republican VP picks. Dan Quayle who couldn’t spell potato, Sarah Palin who thought she could see Russia from her bedroom window. Vance looks just as daft as them, if not more so. He’s not even called JD Vance, he is Jonathan David Hamel, if you … Read more
With a couple of days to digest we can start and see some trends emerging from the rubble of the Conservative Party Labour were expected to win a landslide with 40%+ of the vote. In the end they won a landslide with a much lower vote share, with other parties also doing incredibly well. … Read more
Are ordinary Brits disadvantaged in the labour market because of immigration? I realise that most of my liberal graduate friends will automatically reject such an idea, in particular because there is an unstated assumption in the question that the ordinary Brits being hard done by are white, and the immigrants being given preferential treatment aren’t. … Read more
Closer than people think, but not really that close at all. I have changed my mind, and I think Reform and Green might win a seat. The Greens possibly more than one; Bristol Central is 50/50 but Waveney Valley and North Herts look like they might be closer to a Green victory than people suspect, … Read more
There seems little point in reviewing all of the manifestos as most people by now have made up their minds. Instead I want to address a question I heard a few times. “Labour and Tory are they both the same”? Instinctively the answer is no.. Politics has become incredibly polarised and the gap between Labour … Read more
No. Labour aren’t going to privatise the NHS. I have seen multiple claims on social media that Labour will expand privatisation of the NHS if elected. Mostly these claims come from the Green Party, or from the anti-Labour left. The leader of the Greens made the same claim in the debate last night. This makes … Read more
A small wet man has called a General Election, and lots of people are looking forward to multiple Portillo moments. For those too young to remember the 1997 General Election Michael Portillo was an unpopular cabinet minister who lost his seat to a young Labour candidate. It came to symbolise the crushing defeat the Tories … Read more