Tag Archives: Labour
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Why Sir Keir Starmer should be the next Labour leader
Leave a commentDecember 16, 2019 by Paul Goldsmith
With no election until 2024, the Labour Party’s main role in our political system is to provide effective opposition. With …
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How the YouGov MRP poll changed this election
Leave a commentDecember 9, 2019 by Paul Goldsmith
The YouGov MRP poll released two weeks ago appears to have massively influenced the election campaign. It may have led …
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On the question of alleged anti-semitism in Labour
5December 2, 2019 by Paul Goldsmith
Us Jews are meant to be united on the question of whether Jeremy Corbyn, and by extension the Labour Party, …
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Explaining Labour’s immigration confusion
Leave a commentNovember 29, 2019 by Paul Goldsmith
In the absence of a sensible debate about immigration, the Tories having a policy that might control it is attracting …
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In the end, there will be a price to free broadband
Leave a commentNovember 18, 2019 by Paul Goldsmith
Labour’s commitment to providing free broadband by 2030 may seem attractive on the surface. After all, who is going to …
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The Cost of Corbyn – the lies and false assumptions prove the @Conservatives are scared
1November 14, 2019 by Paul Goldsmith
The Conservative Party’s assessment of Labour’s spending plans betray a massive lack of confidence in themselves. They are full of …
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Question for Labour – who exactly is in ‘the many’?
3November 11, 2019 by Paul Goldsmith
Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign launch asked the question of whose side everyone is on – the many or the few. …
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Why the SNP might make all the difference
Leave a commentNovember 7, 2019 by Paul Goldsmith
If the Tories do not win a majority, the SNP will likely be involved in supporting or creating the next …
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Why Labour’s Brexit Policy is so difficult to understand
4November 6, 2019 by Paul Goldsmith
The reason why people don’t understand Labour’s Brexit position is because…it’s difficult to understand. Jeremy Corbyn himself says it ‘really …
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Why Jeremy Corbyn may be the right Labour leader but at the wrong time
1May 28, 2019 by Paul Goldsmith
When Corbyn was elected in September 2015 nobody could have known how much Brexit would matter. Corbyn’s indifference to it …
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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 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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Analysing Labour’s Brexit Conundrum
3April 29, 2017 by Paul Goldsmith
As an explanation for why Labour is finding it so difficult to work out their Brexit strategy goes, it takes …
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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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The ‘Progressive Democrats’ – a new Political Party that might just get us out of this mess
1June 27, 2016 by Paul Goldsmith
Sometimes, there’s an idea whose time has come. That time is now, and the idea is a new Political Party …
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Why Syria continues to confound Cameron
4November 4, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
Who’d be a Prime Minister? Faced with pictures of civilians dying in Syria, David Cameron has to make a decision …
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A government imposing austerity backed by 24% of the electorate is a legitimate as 250,000 people marching against it
Leave a commentJune 24, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
Last weekend (20th June) there was an anti-austerity march in Central London. It was reported variously that 250,000 people …
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How Labour should respond to Osborne’s plan to legislate for budget surpluses during growth
1June 11, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
Given I have been stating for a while now that Labour should not have arrived at the 2008 recession, …
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Interesting initial statistics on voting behaviour at the 2015 General Election
Leave a commentMay 18, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
Using Lord Ashcroft’s post-election polling and comparing with previous voting statistics gives us some interesting findings. Summary Conservatives’ previously large …
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Why Ed Balls is a loss to politics
2May 15, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
In amongst the carnage last week was a result that made me sad. Ed Balls lost his seat in Morley …
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“We must look deep into our souls but we mustn’t open our veins” – What Labour should do next
Leave a commentMay 13, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
The election result unleashed a torrent of ferocious anguish from the North London bien-pensant metropolitan elite that was so full …
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First Past the Post – Disproportional Representation or Producer of stable government?
Leave a commentMay 11, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
Let’s start with the two graphs above. On the left are the actual seats won. One the right are …
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Why Labour lost
5May 8, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
I’m sure many people with far more knowledge of these things than me will attempt this over the next few …
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The day Esther McVey lost her seat (clue, it wasn’t today)
Leave a commentMay 8, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
Esther McVey didn’t lose her Wirral West seat today, Esther McVey lost her Wirral West seat on December 18th 2013. …
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5am questions- The Lib Dem meltdown and a possible Tory Majority.
Leave a commentMay 8, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
I write this just after a massive moment. The Liberal Democrat Business Secretary, Vince Cable, one of the most powerful people …
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5 Midnight thoughts after the three Sunderland results.
Leave a commentMay 7, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
1) The Pope is Catholic and Labour have won three seats in Sunderland. 2) The good news for Labour is …
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YouGov Poll has a different prediction. Sounds more right, but might not be.
Leave a commentMay 7, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
Just when the Twittersphere was about to go into meltdown with rumours of a Labour coup to get rid of …
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Exit Poll: If it is right we are in for a massive shock.
Leave a commentMay 7, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
If the exit poll that has just been announced is right, we are heading for a Conservative Government. The exit …
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How should I vote tomorrow? 2 – the Parties
2May 6, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
The problem for me is that I know too much. It is not a matter of conceit, but a fact …
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A look at what might happen on May 8th
Leave a commentMay 4, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
So here we are, the final week of this election campaign and it has a different feel to most UK …
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The importance of knowing why you want to be Prime Minister
Leave a commentMay 3, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
I have a question for you. Why do David Cameron and Ed Miliband want to be Prime Minister? Try and …
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5 Thoughts about Thursday’s Leaders’ Question Time
13May 2, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
1. What a fine advert for our democracy that was The star of the programme was the audience. Excellently researched …
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“Mili-Brand” – the review
Leave a commentApril 30, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
Ed Miliband has said from the start that he won’t duck debates in this election. So when it was discovered …
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“Labour’s rent controls” are nothing of the sort. Just redressing imbalances in the provision of a basic need.
Leave a commentApril 27, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
Pollsters released some interesting data just after Labour made their announcement on Saturday about the “rent controls” they are going …
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Will the main parties ever come clean about their actual tax and spending plans?
Leave a commentApril 24, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
Yesterday’s election news was dominated for a time by the Institute of Fiscal Studies (an independent think tank aiming to …
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Why the Conservatives are panicking
Leave a commentApril 22, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
It’s worth ignoring the polls at the moment. They are coming up with huge swings, with some suggesting the Conservatives …
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SNP manifesto – the longest ransom note in history
Leave a commentApril 21, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
So there we have it. The manifesto season has closed with the SNP’s manifesto, launched by the all-conquering Nicola Sturgeon. …
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Why a Conservative / SNP pact after the General a Election is more likely than you think
Leave a commentApril 20, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
Somewhere, deep in Conservative Party headquarters, under some kind of secret codename, and most probably dressed in black, will be …
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How Nicola Sturgeon somehow grabbed victory from the jaws of defeat…for David Cameron
3April 19, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
The moment the Conservatives were waiting for in the Challengers debate for Opposition leaders came right at the end. Until …
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Labour’s Judo political, classic sales technique manifesto…game on Dave.
2April 14, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
There are a variety of reasons why Ed Miliband stood up at the lectern yesterday to deliver Labour’s General Election …
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Lessons from The Godfather for Ed Miliband: Offer the SNP nothing.
Leave a commentApril 13, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
Like the the ‘many’ fellow political obsessives in England, I spent Tuesday evening glued to my IPad as I watched …
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Renewal of Trident is NOT a condition of SNP putting Labour back in No 10
Leave a commentApril 11, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
“Remember: Ed Miliband stabbed his own brother in the back to become Labour leader. Now he is willing to stab …
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Why Labour’s commitment to Careers Advice is so important
1April 10, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
There were many catalysts for my choice to go into teaching back in 2005. Having been a management consultant for …
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The abolition of Non-Doms. A Labour political masterstroke?
3April 9, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
In 1799, at the same time as introducing the first income tax in the UK, Prime Minister William Pitt introduced …
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Why Labour should be spending a lot more time attacking Tory efficiency than Tory cruelty
Leave a commentApril 5, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
The advertising guru Maurice Saatchi noted, just after the shock election victory by the Conservatives in 1992, that ‘cruel but …
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Post-election Chaos – could it include Cameron the ‘squatter’?
Leave a commentApril 4, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
In a sign of the chaos to come from May 8th, Labour have been taking legal advice to try and …
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The leaders’ debate. How they rated.
4April 3, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
So that was the mass debate (stop saying it quickly at the back). Seven adults shouting at each other repeating …
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Why abolishing zero hour contracts really would throw the baby out with the bathwater
Leave a commentApril 2, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
Once again the issue of zero hour contracts came to the fore this week as Labour announced restrictions on their …
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Milibounce – Ed thrives under Paxman pressure
Leave a commentMarch 30, 2015 by Paul Goldsmith
After all the bluff and bluster, this was the start of the election campaign proper. Expectations were low, given the …
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