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Month: June 2018

Joe Biden raises doubts about whether he’ll run for White House in 2020

Joe Biden raises doubts about whether he’ll run for White House in 2020

2nd favourite for Democratic nomination Joe Biden Says He Feels 'Guilty' About Not Wanting to Run for President Because of ‘Charlatan’ Trump https://t.co/U8V0hYXlDn — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) June 27, 2018 Obama’s Vice President for 8 years, Joe Biden, has been talking about the next White House Race and says he “feels guilty” about not wanting to run. Ahead of the 2016 election there was considerable speculation over whether he would run against Hillary Clinton for the nomination. This went on…

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Suddenly Tory cabinet indiscipline moves to the top of the political agenda

Suddenly Tory cabinet indiscipline moves to the top of the political agenda

Is Tory discipline on the verge of breaking down? https://t.co/ELqftPoehk — BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) June 26, 2018 Maybe it was BoJo that started it but very quickly we are seeing leading cabinet figures seeking to set the agenda away from the principle of cabinet collective responsibility. This could be very dangerous for TMay who clearly does not feel she has the strength to sack the rebels. With DefSec, Gavin Williamson, demanding zillions extra for defence the Chief Secretary to the…

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The 2018 London Local Elections : The religious factors analysed

The 2018 London Local Elections : The religious factors analysed

On Thursday Willesden Green (a place well known to fans of DangerMouse) returned three Labour councillors in the election that was deferred from the local elections, but in doing so completed those local elections and allowed us to make the following analysis. Normally I do so with a commentary of my own, but given the subject matter I shall let the figures do the talking and allow other members to form their own opinions. Harry Hayfield

A little local difficulty. A forgotten part of English democracy

A little local difficulty. A forgotten part of English democracy

I’m a dutiful son and I visit my parents regularly. They live in Hadleigh, a quiet market town in south Suffolk. Hadleigh has never quite made it onto the tourist trail. This is a little odd because Kersey, a couple of miles away, is a staple of Christmas cards and meerkat adverts and Lavenham, a few miles further away, is besieged with visitors. Hadleigh has a magnificent guildhall and deanery tower and charming medieval buildings in abundance, many of which…

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TMay deserves to be congratulated for at least making a decision on LHR

TMay deserves to be congratulated for at least making a decision on LHR

The PM’s winning streak continues By a walloping Commons majority last night, 415 votes to 119, the ongoing procrastination over the expansion of Heathrow has been resolved and at last the indecision over the airport’s future is over. That it should have taken so long for it to get to this stage says a lot about big infrastructure decision making in the UK – remember how the Channel Tunnel was opened in December 1993 but it took fifteen years before…

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Trump’s Gallup approval rating drops a net minus nine in a week

Trump’s Gallup approval rating drops a net minus nine in a week

The immigration clampdown is hurting him and possibly his party We’ve now got the first Gallup approval ratings for the period entirely after the immigration clampdown that saw children being forcibly separated from their parents. His approval number is down 4 points in a week to 41% while his disapproval jumped 5 points to 55%. This reflects the hammering he has been getting in the media and even from parts of his own family. What made this particularly challenging for…

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This Bloomberg reports on the referendum, polling and the hedge funds is a must read

This Bloomberg reports on the referendum, polling and the hedge funds is a must read

How the Betfair Brexit market moved on June 23/24 2016. Data/chart from @betdatapolitics pic.twitter.com/5c0FjJCKxv — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) June 25, 2018 I am assuming the ?@TheFCA? and ?@bankofengland? will be reading this impressive expose by ?@business? of what looks like market manipulation on the night the UK chose Brexit – and Sterling first rose and then slumped https://t.co/Fmv1cGdvuC — Robert Peston (@Peston) June 25, 2018 One thing the article does not cover is that there were strong rumours in the…

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