if a serious figure in a party thinks 'strength of conviction' trumps 'policies that can actually be implemented', 'policies from which there are more winners than losers' and 'competent people making policies happen', they're going to be out of office for a long time
Our defeat last week was certainly about a failure to deliver. But what is that
ensures parties deliver in difficult and uncertain circumstances?
It is strength of conviction. I've written for the @Telegraph this weekend about how we rediscover ours
https://t.co/EZk6TMIuRM
@huspsa they are. The Asian pop of Leics East is almost entirely Hindu (or maybe Sikh). The Muslim one is concentrated in South - much of which (fun fact) was largely developed by Methodists, so it has no pubs!
@huspsa@Samfr I think that was more of an issue in Leics East which has a higher Hindu population than Leics South - and of course Labour lost Leics East too!
@Samfr there's an interesting conflict (or overlap?) if he's also got a remit for the Constitution. Does that mean he's i/c relations with devolved govts in the way Michael Gove was as Paymaster-General?
People are growing thoroughly fed up of a system that they don’t think is working, and increasingly opting for populist parties (or not voting at all).
This is not funny. Countries only do this when they’re in extreme distress.
@RJDoyleSW2@josiahmortimer Whitehall would never want the sheer amount of hassle involved!
(I remember a senior official responsible for relations with both Crown deps and devolved admins complaining that practically all her work was the former. The latter were easy by comparison.)
Austerity has fundamentally cracked our country’s public services. It harmed us all, those with least the most. It set the context for Brexit, our Covid response, the return of mass child poverty, our NHS crisis. On July 4th please remember: we are all still living with it. 3/3
Having dodged the issue for tactical reasons before the election, there are very good political and economics reasons for Starmer to play prosecutor on Brexit once he has won. 1/n
Why Starmer should now play prosecutor on Brexit https://t.co/PNNH3zMR4D via @ft
🤯 when a Conservative cabinet decided the party was more important than the country’s well-being.
Astonishing moment from @ShippersUnbound account of May’s Brexit travails in Spring 2019. (Fall Out, p.485)
@robertshrimsley it's not so much an archaelogical find as a rare wildlife sighting. They're gregarious beasts so like to congregate in large packs when they can, and often get too intimate when that happens.
and if you're a multisquillionaire living in free accommodation in central London, who's enjoyed two very rapid promotions due to chaos in your organisation and who can return to California when it doesn't work out, perhaps it is