Augustus Carp look at the latest figures on councillors who change their political allegiance. It's been just over four months since the last round of local elections in England, so it's probably time to have a quick look at the list of defections, expulsions, ratting and re-ratting going on amongst our elected councillors. My thesis is a simple one: local government by elections tell us a lot about real votes cast by real voters, and are the subject of considerable (over?) analysis. However, councillors changing their political allegiances might be able to tell us a lot more about morale and ...
I wrote this about Mid Bedfordshire back in July: Labour has won vanishingly few seats like this one in recent decades, and Lib Dems will grumble about a strong Labour campaign being the Tories' best chance of holding on or ask how Labour are different from the Tories now. But Labour are allowed to fight Southern by-elections if they are want to. Besides, it's not unknown for by-elections in Tory held seats to turn into two-horse races between Labour and the Liberals. This is what happened in Brecon and Radnor in 1985 and Littleborough and Saddleworth in 1995. And we ...
Welcome to my summary of the latest national voting intention poll from each pollster currently operating in Britain. If you'd like to find out more about how polls work, how reliable they are and how to make sense of them, check out my book, Polling UnPacked: the History, Uses and Abuses of Political Opinion Polls, or sign up for my weekly email, The Week in Polls: General election voting intention polls PollsterConLabLDGrnRUKCon leadFieldwork WeThink 27% (+1) 44% (-2) 11% (+2) 6% (nc) 7% (+1) -17% 14-15/9 Opinium 26% (-2) 41% (-1) 11% (+2) 7% (-1) 8% (nc) -15% 13-15/9 Techne ...
Liberal Democrats have selected councillor and finance expert Sally Symington for the re-drawn constituency of South West Hertfordshire.
From September 16, 2022, Iran changed forever! On that day, in response to the killing of Mahsa Amini, an anti-government protest began that quickly spread throughout the country. What started as a demonstration against the compulsory Hijab soon became a political outcry targeting the entire regime. Chants of "Death to the dictator," "Death to Khamenei," and "Death to the oppressor, be it the Shah or the Leader (Khamenei)" echoed from nearly 300 cities across all 31 provinces of Iran. Women played the leading role throughout the uprising. The regime wasted no time in mobilising its forces to control the situation. ...
Back in the 1960s, Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech saaw him removed from government and ostracised by the Conservative Party. In the 2020s it appears that his former party is far more tolerant of his memory and his views. The Independent reports that the Conservatives' candidate for London mayor Susan Hall liked a tweet praising Enoch Powell and describing Sadiq Khan as a "traitor rat". They add that Ms Hall liked an image of the notorious anti-immigration politician, a favourite of the far-right, which quoted him saying: "It's never too late to save your country." The tweet liked by ...
Next week (beginning Monday 18th September) sees a range of activities taking place to celebrate recovery across Dundee and all of the great work that is done by services across the city to support people. You can see the full list of these activities below :
