Blimey, I was not expecting this
I suspect Corbyn and his supporters will not go quietly. TSE
Ashcroft poll: 73% LAB members say the antisemitism issue was invented or wildly exaggerated by Corbyn’s opponents
And All segments, it seems, apart from LAB members rate Tony Blair as the best party leader of recent times
Finchley & Golders Green – the only constituency where there’ve been two polls
The Chief Rabbi’s comments on anti-semitism put the focus once again on what’s troubled Corbyn’s Labour Party for nearly 2 years – the way it has handled anti-semitism within the movement. One of the high-profile victims of some serious online antisemitism was the former Liverpool Wavertree MP, Luciana Berger who has now switched to the Lib Dems and will be fighting the the Finchley and Golders Green seat on December 12th. She left her original party after facing a torrent…
Election Battlegrounds: Guzzledown
Political Betting doesn’t often discuss exhibitions of 18th century art, but I can highly recommend the Hogarth exhibition currently showing at the commendably eccentric Soane Museum in London. It is a very rare opportunity to see in one place all of Hogarth’s masterly sequences of ‘Modern Moral Subjects’, including A Rake’s Progress, A Harlot’s Progress, and Marriage A-La-Mode. Most topical, though, is The Humours of an Election (1754-1755), depicting a (literally) hard-fought election in the two-member constituency of Guzzledown, Oxfordshire….
LAB’s GE17 performance is misleading as a tactical voting guide because since then its reputation has been tainted by antisemitism
There weren’t front pages like this before GE2017 So far the LAB GE19 campaign has been dominated by furious attacks like the one above from the Jewish Chronicle and nearly half a dozen candidates having to stand aside because they are on record as stated things that can be seen as anti semitic. For the Labour party that is going into this election continues to be afflicted by impact of it and its leader’s actions on this form of racism….
Latest polling round-up
New YouGov Times pollCON 36% =LAB 21% -2LD 18% =BRX 13% +1GRN 6% = — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) October 31, 2019 Survation Mail poll "favoured stance on Brexit"Johnson 41%Swinnson 23%Corbyn 15% — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) October 31, 2019 From Survation/Mail poll42% of LAB supporters say they would be more likely to vote for the party if Corbyn stepped down; 18% say they would be less likely to vote LAB. — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) October 31, 2019 LAB's equivocation stance on…
Another female Jewish MP is hounded out of Labour
I have made the truly agonising decision to leave the Labour Party after 55 years. I can no longer advocate voting Labour when it risks Corbyn becoming PM. I will continue to serve the people of Liverpool Riverside as I have had the honour to do since 1997. pic.twitter.com/3BTzUacZvo — Louise Ellman MP (@LouiseEllman) October 16, 2019 Why is it that the haters go for the women? Incidents like this and the failure of the party under Corbyn to deal…
On the eve of the Lib Dem conference defection speculation goes in to overdrive
Hearing rumours of another defection from @UKLabour to Lib Dems. If true, surprise. Bad news for what it represents. — Michael Foster (@MikeFoster1403) September 13, 2019 Eyes emoji klaxon: the Lib Dem branch in Canterbury has cancelled planned hustings for its parliamentary candidate, or rather party has. *IF* Rosie Duffield were to defect, would be hugely significant — the first member of Lab’s 17 I take to quit. https://t.co/CtbzNPE287 — Patrick Maguire (@patrickkmaguire) September 13, 2019 A spokesperson for Rosie…