The Telegraph is trying to whip up some interest: it’s fair to say, reflecting on my many conversations with party members, that a significant number of members are less certain about their vote now than when the contest begin three … Continue reading →
The Chancellor warns over Johnson and Hunt’s plans to cut taxes and spend more, which is fair enough. (Personally I think the tax cuts are a good idea, but not the extra spending.) But what is astonishing in what Hammond … Continue reading →
The only thing that can save Boris Johnson, and the Conservative Party, is his Cabinet: BORIS Johnson will make everyone in his Cabinet promise to commit to leave the EU by October 31 – or they’ll be sacked. The … Continue reading →
A lot of Conservative MPs are making big claims about bringing down the government if they try to pursue a WTO Brexit. I say: call their bluff. They won’t do it. As soon Boris becomes PM (assuming he does), he … Continue reading →
There seems to be a lot of this sort of thinking happening at the moment: The Establishment is clearly trying to smear Boris in any way possible. They’re frightened of him. He’s the anti-Establishment candidate. They must fear that he’s … Continue reading →
If you’d ask me a few days ago what the odds are on Boris Johnson actually doing a No Deal Brexit would have sung you the bit from Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds: The chances of Boris getting No … Continue reading →
The Telegraph may have got a bit more conservative again recently, but it’s still full of enemy hostiles — consider, for example, this piece of incredibly biased reporting over the incident where Mark Field prevented a protester from getting past … Continue reading →
There are suddenly a rash of determined and blatant media efforts to portray Boris Johnson as unstable — for example: And he is said to be so disturbed about his divorce from Marina there have been questions raised about his … Continue reading →
Why on Earth does the Conservative Party allow hostile, left-wing TV channels like Channel 4 and the BBC to be in charge of running their leadership debates? It’s their party, they should set up their own debates and tell the … Continue reading →
Some people wanted a Boris coronation to save the pointlessness of a month run-off between Boris and Hunt, when it’s obvious Boris will win. I can see one advantage of that — getting Theresa May out of office before she … Continue reading →
So now that Rod Stewart, aka Rory Stewart, has been eliminated from the Conservative Party leadership race, he can go on to the next stage of his career, which is to constantly appear on those political TV shows — namely, … Continue reading →
Martin, an empathetic, touchy-feely defender of Rory Stewart reaches out in the comments to heal the divide: “You won’t like Rory when he’s angry. Actually, you won’t like him when he’s not angry either, as he’s a prancing ninny.” What … Continue reading →
There’s a certain influential section of the middle class that longs for spiritual authority figures to take control of our messy lives and ‘heal’ us all. But as traditional religion has waned in recent decades, politicians are more than ever … Continue reading →
Disappointing rumour from the Telegraph: As many as one third of Theresa May’s top team could be replaced by a new cadre of rising star politicians being lined up to sit in a Boris Johnson Cabinet. A third is the … Continue reading →
This was the Speccie’s article on the figure on the bus in 2017: The £350m line on the Brexit bus was wrong. The real figure is higher The most regular attack-line used against leading Brexiteers is that they … Continue reading →
