Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
The Two Polly Toynbee Parties Thesis would undoubtedly come as news to Polly Toynbee.
The areas that swung the referendum were not only left-wing, but voted Leave for that reason. It wasn't immigration in, say, Sunderland, or Hartlepool, or Pontypridd. In any case, there are left-wing as well as right-wing arguments on both sides even of that.
There is no vacant electoral space to the right of the Tory front bench. It simply doesn't exist.
Hitchens on Twitter sums up what I wrote here earlier.
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.@Lone_Inadequate We already have two Polly Toynbee parties, New Labour and Tories. I'm proposing we go down to one."
Exactly.
We have two leftwing parties.
It's a rightwing party we need.
The Two Polly Toynbee Parties Thesis would undoubtedly come as news to Polly Toynbee.
DeleteThe areas that swung the referendum were not only left-wing, but voted Leave for that reason. It wasn't immigration in, say, Sunderland, or Hartlepool, or Pontypridd. In any case, there are left-wing as well as right-wing arguments on both sides even of that.
There is no vacant electoral space to the right of the Tory front bench. It simply doesn't exist.
Quite right, as a country we love the NHS and don't like getting our water bill from a private company.
DeleteAll that the Labour party has to do to start winning elections on a left wing platform is to listen more to its natural supporters.
Or indeed, on those issues, to more or less everybody.
DeletePolly Toynbee leftwing? No, she's a conservative. Look how much she hates Jeremy Corbyn.
ReplyDeleteIt says Bonanza, as opposed to High Chaparral.
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