Starmer's Tactics Not Cutting Through

 

🚨 | NEW: Westminster Voting Intention:

[Working class]

🌳 CON: 48%
🌹 LAB: 29%

Via @YouGov

— Politics For All (@PoliticsForAlI) April 29, 2021

Cue Media Outrage!

 

🚨 | NEW: Preferred Prime Minister poll:

Boris Johnson: 40% (+5)
Keir Starmer: 24% (-4)

Via @BMGResearch, 22-26 April
Changes w March

— Politics For All (@PoliticsForAlI) April 29, 2021

Farewell Arlene

 

It's the end of the road for Arlene Foster: 26 hours after dismissing the News Letter's report of growing discontent with her leadership and saying "I’ve bigger things to do", she has announced that she will resign as DUP leader. Full statement here: https://t.co/UCSBwmaA6X

— Sam McBride (@SJAMcBride) April 28, 2021

Electoral Commission To Investigate #SofaGate

 

 I wonder, given the "quality" of the refurb, whether Boris now feels that it was really worth all the hassle?

Boris Takes The Knee

 

Derry Irvine's £60K Pugin Wallpaper

 

It seems that the media and Labour Party, in their "excitement" over Boris refurbishing Number 11 with his own money, have very short memories.

Have they really forgotten, for example, Derry Irvine's £60K Pugin wallpaper paid for with taxpayers' money?

#CumGate - A Gate To Nowhere

The inhabitants of the Westminster bubble (namely the journalists and politicians who feed upon each other) are in a feeding frenzy over what Cummings has hinted he knows, and what he may reveal to Parliament next month.

Thusfar it has been pretty thin gruel a.o.:

- the PM may, or may not, have vociferously resisted a third lockdown (which he ended up imposing)

- the PM may, or may not, have wanted someone else to pay for the redecoration of Number 11 (which he ended up paying for)

- Chatty Rat may or may not be Cummings or Henry Newman

The fact is, no one outside of the Westminster bubble gives a toss about these issues that have been in the public domain for some months now.

As the pandemic restrictions are eased, people will want to put the whole experience behind them (as they did after the 1919 flu pandemic). What will matter to the people who actually do matter (ie the voters) will be

- the state of the economy (exceptional growth now predicted), 

- the functioning of the NHS(which has been found wanting), 

- education, 

- housing and 

- law & order.