by nabidana | Sep 25, 2024 | Featured, Labour, Leader, politics, Uncategorized
Sir Keir Starmer, erstwhile Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, waded into the swamp he had helped create a few weeks ago and has had a torrid time trying to convince the media to pay attention to policy and not the gifting...
by nabidana | Sep 21, 2020 | Leader, Uncategorized
A casual observer could be forgiven for mistaking the current state of British and American politics as a little mismanaged at the moment. With two unconventional leaders, one might be surprised that their opponents equally fear being beaten again by them come the...
by nabidana | Nov 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
Theresa May wasn’t my first choice to lead the Conservative Party. I wanted David Cameron to face the responsibility of delivering Brexit after the referendum. I wanted him to come out to the podium the day after the referendum and say something like...
by nabidana | Dec 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
The Brexit deal which nobody with any commonsense expected to be reached yesterday fell partially because of a spooked DUP who saw the Irish press and commentariat crowing about an Irish diploamtic coup, and partially because of a concept which is not particularly new...
by nabidana | Oct 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
Either there’ll be a heave now or there’ll be a heave later. There doesn’t need to be. There’s still an opportunity for Theresa May to create a strong and stable cabinet and manage the process of negotiation and eventual departure at a time...
by nabidana | Aug 30, 2017 | Featured, Uncategorized
The sorts of people likely to turn to the Conservative Party (and more importantly actually vote Conservative) in the UK are not the sort of feckless mouth-breathing snowflake cretins who flock to the bearded brother of Chavez on the Left. They are not excited by...