Labour

Changing the debate

30/07/2015 thomas 2 Comments

Margaret Thatcher was once asked what she considered her greatest achievement. She replied, “Tony Blair and New Labour. We forced

16/05/2015 thomas 14 Comments

The SNP’s huge victory in the General Election saw some truly incredible swings. It made me wonder what would have

14/05/201515/05/2015 thomas 4 Comments

Seumas Milne had an interesting wee article in The Guardian yesterday, which rather backs up my recent blog post about

11/05/2015 thomas 13 Comments

I think Paul Mason might be right that the UK has effectively disintegrated into three tribes: Scandi-Scotland, the asset-rich south-east

06/05/2015 thomas 2 Comments

According to Wikipedia, Northern Ireland’s “SDLP is […] working to strengthen its ties with the Parliamentary Labour Party, whose whip

04/02/2015 thomas 7 Comments

Lord Ashcroft’s 16 constituency polls today confirmed that the national opinion polls are correct (if anything, the swing is larger

26/01/201514/09/2018 thomas 23 Comments

Before the fall of the Iron Curtain, left-wing parties in Europe typically had left-wing policies, such as being in favour