Thursday 4 March 2021

Over A Barrel

Pork barrel politics? Keir Starmer is annoyed to be reminded that these are the kind of places that he needs to win, which he is not going to do.

Although when it comes to the North East, then the obsession with Teesside continues. Yesterday's Darlington was a fairly expansive definition of that, but both of today's beneficiaries are in the historic North Riding of Yorkshire, south of the Tees.

The economic power of the State is to the Conservatives, and indeed to the Blairite wing of the Labour Party, what the Crown is to Labour, and indeed to the Thatcherite wing of the Conservative Party.

Does anyone think that Prime Minister Corbyn would have abolished the Royal Prerogative, rather than put it to very extensive use? When it comes to splashing the cash, then the same is true of Chancellor Sunak.

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