Views on the news….
Okay…. I got it wrong! I, like many bloggers, commentators, and the public in general, predicted that the Conservatives were going to win a landslide…. but that didn’t happen. Here’s some newspaper headlines on the eve of the election… Here’s some newspaper headlines after the results… […]
What is the point of this general election? A general election which was not really needed. A general election in which politicians continually argue over nothing. A general election in which the real issues facing the nation will not be tackled. A general election which is being repeatedly dominated by brexit. A general election in […]
The Labour party’s reaction to arguably their worst local elections results in living memory yesterday reminds me of the service provided by the shopkeeper in Monty Python’s infamous Dead Parrot sketch.
So, former Prime Minister Tony Blair, former (to some people, current) public enemy number one, is returning to front line politics. Why? “What’s happening in Britain really worries me,” he says in this headline in the Daily Mirror, probably the only newspaper who will back the Labour party in this year’s Brexit election. Twenty years […]
So, Prime Minster Theresa May has called an early general election for June 8th. Am I the only one who thinks that this is a bad idea? The only reason that I see that she’s going ahead with the latest in a long line of u-turns on recent policy (she had earlier pledged not to […]