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This election was about education too
Leave a commentJune 22, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
Lots of focus has been put on the young vote and the old vote. The older vote might have been …
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The 2,227 votes that are why Labour are pushing for another election
Leave a commentJune 21, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
Labour insiders are at the moment arguing that they are on an election footing right now. They will be gearing …
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Is Ruth Davidson in the wrong Parliament now?
Leave a commentJune 15, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
Theresa May would probably not be Prime Minister now if it wasn’t for Ruth Davidson. Jeremy Corbyn might have had …
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Why Theresa May had little choice but to deal with the DUP
Leave a commentJune 12, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
There’s been a lot of hot air expressed since the election about the Conservatives’ tie up with the Democratic Unionist …
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The audacity of hope vs the cowardice of fear
4June 11, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
The 2017 General Election campaign involved the rejection of Theresa’s May view of what 21st century Toryism should be. It …
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How well did Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour actually do?
Leave a commentJune 10, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
They lost. They did better than people expected but they lost. Among the crowing at what happened to the complacent …
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#GE2017 chaos: What happens now?
Leave a commentJune 9, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
This is the third hung Parliament since 1945. It is also the third failed call of a surprise snap election …
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Who should I vote for in Ealing Central and Acton?
2June 7, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
I am lucky enough to live in Ealing Central and Acton, which is a (very) marginal constituency. It was prised …
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The folly of the Tories parking their tanks on Labour’s Government power lawn
Leave a commentJune 3, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
In the aftermath of her loss to Donald Trump, some commentators pointed out that Hillary Clinton might have won had …
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Why Labour Party figures need to know their figures.
Leave a commentJune 2, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
Is it important to remember the cost of your policies when your main opponent hasn’t any costings at all? Well, …
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YouGov poll predicts a hung Parliament – could it be right?
Leave a commentJune 1, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
Polling is a dangerous business. No-one predicted the Conservatives’ majority in 2015 and the EU Referendum result came as a …
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Jeremy Corbyn on foreign policy: why you should read it before commenting
1May 29, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
I am prepared to bet good money that many of the people who responded negatively to Jeremy Corbyn’s foreign policy …
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Lifelong Labour voters are switching to Theresa May, not the Conservatives
Leave a commentMay 22, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
As journalists have been traipsing around the country covering the election, they have come across a particularly interesting potential voting …
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Labour debt-pointers are risking their party’s economic credibility again
1May 21, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
I actually can’t take it anymore. It is economically illiterate and it is self-defeating and it has to stop. It …
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Conservative manifesto – May tries to get UK moving ‘forward together’ without committing to how
Leave a commentMay 19, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
Well, this was the big one. This is the only manifesto that will have to be delivered. Therefore, there can …
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How the Lib Dems plan to make EU think again
1May 18, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
Assessing this Liberal Democrat manifesto is an odd business. They aren’t even suggesting that it is a manifesto for Government, …
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Labour’s manifesto – bold and offering a clear choice about how we want to live
5May 17, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
I have to admit to developing a bit of a crush on Labour’s manifesto. It is bold and it offers …
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Why energy price caps will worsen the energy market for consumers
1May 16, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
The energy market is a target for both the mainstream political parties. Both Labour and Conservatives have suggested price caps …
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The unintended consequences of raising corporation tax
Leave a commentMay 15, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
Recent research found that in 1979, when Margaret Thatcher took over the country and the economic model changed, the workforce …
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If Jeremy Corbyn moves the Overton Window, it’s good for democracy
Leave a commentMay 14, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
Over the next week, the party manifestos are going to be published (or in Labour’s case the second, agreed …
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How Labour’s 97 hamstringing should be a lesson to May
Leave a commentMay 13, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
During the course of this election I have referred a few times to the importance of Theresa May not tying …
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Why the Progressive Pact may need to be fact.
3May 12, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
Two days ago I reported details of a tacit ‘reactionary pact’ in which UKIP voters were defecting to the Tories …
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Election expenses – you can’t prosecute someone if they haven’t broken any laws
1May 11, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
So yesterday the Crown Prosecution Service announced that they would not be prosecuting any Conservative MPs for breach of expenses …
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UKIP haven’t died. They’ve won.
Leave a commentMay 10, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
In amongst the possibly genuinely held joy of many on the centre and left of politics at the fall of …
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Why Corbyn could stay if Labour lose – part 2
Leave a commentMay 9, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
The aftermath of the Labour’s landslide General Election defeat in 1983, on the back of a hard left-wing manifesto that one …
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Why Corbyn could stay if Labour lose – part 1
3May 8, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
The general consensus is that Jeremy Corbyn will resign as Labour Leader on June 9th. Some in the Labour Party …
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What the council elections mean for #ge2017
Leave a commentMay 6, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
Tom Newton Dunn, Political Editor of The Sun, reported on Thursday that a Senior Tory had told him that he …
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Why the #libdemfightback might not deliver more seats
Leave a commentMay 5, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
Rumour has it there were high fives in Liberal Democrat headquarters when Theresa May announced she would be calling a …
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Think the education funding debate is ideological? Think again.
Leave a commentMay 4, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
This is about real people, and the future of this country. The state primary school of which I am Governor …
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Please let there be no more immigration ‘caps’
Leave a commentMay 3, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
How do make a well-trained Canadian GP leaving the UK and going back to Canada seem like a ‘good’ thing? How …
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Scottish #Toryfightback on the cards?
Leave a commentMay 1, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
Have a look at the charts above. They don’t indicate a political earthqauke, like is predicted in Wales, but there …
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Change in popular votes but not seats in Northern Ireland?
Leave a commentMay 1, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
Northern Ireland have had their political earthquake already. The FPTP election system used in this General Election means there is …
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Does a political earthquake await in Wales?
Leave a commentApril 30, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
With thanks to Professor Roger Scully from Cardiff University, I have some strange readings from the political Richter scale to report …
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Can the normal political rules survive the ‘Brexit election’?
1April 28, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
Within hours of Theresa May’s announcement that she intended to call an election on June 8th, the offices of ‘Open Britain’, …
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Antisemitism antisceptic: The strange case of David Ward’s short GE2017 campaign
Leave a commentApril 27, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
A fascinating little side show to yesterday’s  highly political PMQs debate between Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May over Brexit and …
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Why the Pensions Triple Lock guarantee should be removed
Leave a commentApril 26, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
On the first draft of the 1979 Conservative manifesto, Margaret Thatcher scrawled “Hostage!” or “hostage to fortune’ on any commitment …
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No ‘Tax lock’ would be sensible economics.
Leave a commentApril 26, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
Back during preparations for the 2015 General Election, there was a hole in the ‘media grid’ political parties use to …
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How the British election system could come to Labour’s aid.
Leave a commentApril 25, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
Predictions for Labour are dire. With no real position on Brexit, and one of the most unpopular mainstream Party leaders …
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The falling pound has been good for British firms. Hasn’t it?
Leave a commentApril 24, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
The fall of the value of the pound, which has been about 20% against the Dollar and the Euro since …
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Jeremy Corbyn’s morals and principles would make him an unpopular populist
4April 22, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
I met Jeremy Corbyn once. It was at my wife’s Auntie Angela’s 90th birthday party. It was a Sunday in …
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Why is Scotland different?
1April 21, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
Scotland is a country part in this General Election. The issues that matter there are very different from those that …
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Six reasons why the 2017 General Election is so hard to predict
Leave a commentApril 20, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
So, the vote to overturn the Fixed Term Parliament Act and call a General Election passed with barely a murmur …
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