It’s that exciting time of the year when the nation holds its breath for the reshuffle. The time when the Prime Minister refreshes his government and presents his winning team to the party conference. Well, that’s what party managers spin to a press that is desperate for stori...
The one lesson that I have learned in decades of politics is that people do not vote for parties who are divided. It is a mantra adopted by Sunak & by Starmer. And it is good sense. The other blindingly obvious lesson from history is that government’s lose election...
I haven’t blogged for a while for two reasons. Like the majority of the criminal bar we spend most of our weekends preparing cases for Monday which we have usually just been parachuted into. And these tend to be back to back trials which are physically and mentally draining. ...
Just as the nation returns from counselling after the heartbreaking psychodrama of Phil and Holly our emotions are in turmoil over the resignation of St Boris Our Saviour. ‘Are you OK?’ you might ask me. Too bloody right I am. And if this ghastly little shit had a political gr...
Let me predict what will happen at the local government elections on Thursday. The Conservatives. ‘Obviously this is a disappointing result for us and we want to thank all of our hardworking candidates for their hard work. Their seats are on loan. But it was not the wi...
I have never seen a party so visibly disintegrate as fast as the SNP. That great shining beacon of Independence which has bestrode this narrow world like a Colossus (sorry Mr Shakepeare) is seen at last for what it always has been, a corrupt, dictatorial secret cult, who has r...
Like nature, inter-party strife abhors a vacuum. And mercifully the Conservatives have finally realised that Sunak is the only game in town to head off political genocide and make a small win escape the realms of delusional fantasy. My litmus test was appearing on tele...
Dear old Auntie always gets her knickers in a twist when it comes to a crisis. At this she is as predictable as a flasher’s mac. The dilemma is what do you do with a popular presenter who behaves like a twat? The answer is er, ah ahem; let’s have have a cooling off period and...
I suppose I shouldn’t be too shocked that the likes of Cruddas, Dorries and an asylum of Conservative Party members are still talking up the chances of Johnson triumphantly returning to Number 10. It is, of course, delusional but par for the course. Many years ago he lectured...
Sometimes Tory backbenchers are like those who see a vehicle which could do with a good clean and feel compelled my some mysterious and inexplicable force to draw a penis on it. It has happened twice this week. The lederhosen wing have launched on another crusade to promote t...