Politicians are famed for spin and for trying to make even the darkest days bright and breezy. This is never more evident than following an election defeat.
Back in the local elections in 2007, Twydall’s winning Labour councillors spun their number-of-votes increase as increased support.
They may have got more people out to vote than in 2003, [...]
National anger at the Labour Party has allowed two British National Party candidates – including its Leader Nick Griffin, who has a spent criminal conviction – to win seats in the European Parliament in the North of England.
The party has also been pushed in to fifth place in the South of England by the Green [...]
James Purnell has become the fifth Labour minister to resign this week, and speculation has been growing as to whether Gordon Brown will resign or call an election.
My answer would be no. Brown is a coward – he is scared of elections because he knows he will lose. He’s not interested in the interests of [...]
On Sunday, I received information from one of my sources that Gillingham and Rainham MP Paul Clark was in Twydall ‘looking for ’supporters’.
The instant reaction to this news has to be ‘he’ll be lucky’ – and for once I do not mean that in a partisan manner. Indeed all parties have been guilty of breaching [...]
Gordon Brown became Prime Minister in mid-2007. Since then, he has been almost constantly behind in the polls, except when he looked almost certain to call a snap election, before realising he’d lose and bottling it.
Those days seem a mere distant memory now, with the fierce onset of recession and increasing public mistrust. I bet [...]
