So far, so good, the tide is changing…

In the last few days I feel like reading the papers and watching the news again. Labour is certainly out of the woods again and has got its political edge back, this can only be good for British politics, even if you don’t support Labour.
The key reason for the change on political momentum was Brown’s [...]

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Glasgow East: lessons and summer homework for Labour

Ok, Labour had to touch rock-bottom to drag me out of my dissertation work and back into blogging. I won’t analyse too much on yesterday’s by-election because that you can find in plenty of blogs and papers today and probably in the days to come.
But I would like to make some post-mortem observations about the [...]

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David Davis and Labour

Today certainly is a good day to be a political analyst. Ireland has voted no to the Lisbon Treaty, I might blog about that later on, and Kevin McKenzie, former Sun editor, has decided to run against David Davis in this unexpected by-election as the pro-42 days candidate. Both the LibDems and Labour are not [...]

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Last train is leaving the station

This is it. The 17.6% swing to the Tories in Crewe and Nantwich was bigger than expected but also shows two key weaknesses Labour is going to face in the next two years before election day.
First of all, the realignment of the electorate to the pre-1997 era. The LibDem share of the vote went down [...]

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The PM is running out of political capital

Many left-wing columnists, and pretty much any Labour Party activist, keep saying how Labour’s electoral situation is absolutely terrible but how Brown can come back ‘if he does a, b and c’. Then they move on to say how there are still two years to go to the next general election and so on.
That is [...]

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