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Haven’t we been here before with ‘Make Britain Great‘ when they get a taste of power? - oh hang on, I’m getting confused with the US right wing conspiracists, Make America Great Again. Yet lying about crowd sizes seems to be an infectious pathology that the hard right seem particularly...

Political theorising about the meaning of ’fascism’ doesn’t really matter when you have the emergence of popular far right ideology pervading main stream British politics (ahead of the Lib Dems and Greens) and aligning itself to a right wing Presidential nominee in the US who won’t accept...

Me too - grew up in South London in the ‘60s, before moving to Brighton in the 70’s, remember being bullied at school for being (and ‘looking’ ) Jewish - Dad used to take me to Stamford Bridge in the 60s as a young kid but was old enough to know about the Chelsea Headhunters. Then later in the...

Since it was my post you were quoting, I’ll answer you further and not by attacking you or making ad hominem remarks - that’s too easy and only serves to play to the gallery for points imo - However, that hatred, I would suggest has not sprung up out of nowhere: Maybe you just weren’t exposed...

Quite frankly for most of us it is not (but of course it depends on your point of view). ‘Back’ from what exactly? ’Nasty Muslims’, ‘Pro-Palestinian’ protestors and other ‘foreigners’ who are ‘tearing our democracy apart’ and back from all the ‘millions‘ of ‘illegal’ migrants ‘invading our...

From the Labour Party’s 2019 Election Review Confusing messaging about Brexit, losing low income voters, in party fighting, historical trends but Jeremy’s Corbyn’s likeability ratings (is that a word?!) played a key part in Labour’s 2019 Election defeat...

It’s different IMO. I absolutely agree with the unsolicited door knocking being infuriating but doorstep canvassing more often than not now targets people that already support the party or have done in the previous election. Most doorstep work is leafleting these days. At least that’s my...

More Tories possibly defecting? https://news.sky.com/story/more-tory-mps-in-talks-to-defect-reform-uk-leader-hints-13093026 This should indicate Mr Anderson’s ‘popularity’ - a Petition that has been on Change.org for more than 2 weeks has little over 200 signatures - apparently ‘free speech’...

@Nobby I still think British politics is not at the stage where the cult of personality usurps political popularity as it does in the US. I’m a great believer (in the context of liberal democracies) that the spectrum of mainstream political parties reflect not only the general mores and...

Trouble is with your figures, it is a snapshot out of historical context, ignores the Covid pandemic (which resulting in an increase of public servants) and ignores Brexit, the single largest cause in the past 5 years for an increase in CS staff. Numbers are still lower than its most recent...

Nit-picking. 😉 The Cabinet Secretary, Simon Case at the moment, is Head of the Civil Service and a Government appointee so of course the ‘Head of the Civil Service’ says ‘hours can be cut with no loss of efficiency’ when his job is to drive forward Government policy. ’The cabinet secretary...

Unlawful campaign spending by Vote Leave for a referendum with no legal enforcement regulated by an Electoral Commission fuzzy on the Law in an attempt to implement an unpopular policy by a Tory government being held over a barrel by a few Tory backbenchers scared of losing their seats to UKIP -...

A very hard right, sweeping characterisation of the Pro-Palestinian demonstrations if you don’t mind me saying so. Anti-semitism and Islamophobia are two sides of the same coin that de-humanises others. It matters not whether the target of such discrimination are Jewish or Muslim or any other...