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The clue was in the squad numbers to be fair. I don’t think there’s an obvious and convincing CM partner for Rice. Bellingham at CAM can hardly be considered a negative move either as Foden hasn’t been great for England, Palmer has only had a few caps and Saka is a deserving starter. It’s good...

The international game is more defensive than the club game, fact.

To be fair, the Attlee government achieved all its manifesto by 1950 and had been in government during the war years. Then you had war in Korea and a successful wartime leader as your opponent… Attlee ushered in a consensus that last until Thatcher, that was his success.

There was more to it than that. Remainer Tories preferred the prospect of Brexit than to a Corbyn government. The tories only increased their vote share by 1.2% whereas Labour lost 7.9% vote share and haemorrhaged votes from Brexit leaning parties (Tory & Brexit Party) and Remain leaning parties...

Flying out on the 19th to Frankfurt and after Slovenia, I’ll be basing myself in Brussels between all the games after the Group Stages because I’ll be working. Perhaps I’ll see you one or both of you out there!

The mistake was getting rid of Boris. A lot of the public still him and he’s a good campaigner. As for Truss, I actually agree with a lot of her observations on how to fix the economy. Her delivery was disastrous and generally incompetent to govern. Like you said, after 14 years, the Tory...

Talked about, both parties pick out their golden boys/girls and parachuted into ‘safe seats’, for sure. David Miliband was the supposed heir in 2010 and Burnham in 2015 before ‘Red Ed’ and Jezza had other ideas.

The 1970s. Our electoral system has gone through alternating predominance where one party dominates for multiple terms. If Starmer was genuinely popular, I’d 100% agree that the Tories are done for a generation. He isn’t and the electorate seem more intent on punishing the Tories (rightfully...

Frankly, we don’t know because the leader’s of tomorrow seemingly come out nowhere. Sunak himself was junior minister and relative unknown in 2019 - elected MP in 2015, he’s relatively inexperienced. Likewise with Labour, Starmer hasn’t even been an MP for 9 years yet (relatively inexperienced)...

5 years ago, it was unfathomable that Labour would overturn an 80-seat majority in this election. They’re on a precipice of a record majority and complacency would be dangerous for Labour. Echoes of 1945-51 in terms of the electoral outlook. Labour overturning a massive majority with people...

Pure opinion here, I think the electorate will tire of the Labour Party quickly in government. In 1997, the electorate were genuinely enthusiastic about Blair and his vision of ‘third way’ politics. There isn’t that same enthusiasm for Starmer and most of the key policies are tinkering around...

Duh. Blair is obviously far right.

It’s not helpful when you choose to not define what you call far right. The big difference is that Nigel Farage is an ex-Tory, whereas the National Rally and Brother’s of Italy have their roots in neo-nazi/fascist movements. That’s a starting point. The AfD, started as a breakup from the CDU...

On the topic of the New Deal, you actually needed one! 😂

I’ll humour you, first, how would you define ‘far right?’

No coincidence that most of the EU countries are considering this too. Australia processes asylum seekers in 3rd countries as well and no one would consider that country ‘far right’. It’s an issue affecting Europe and the wider anglophone world and if unchecked, it will fester into something...

This line of thinking shows how disconnected a lot of Labour thinkers are from their core voters. The electorate has had immigration on its mind since the New Labour years. Immigration was a mainstream issue before UKIP was a meaningful force in UK politics. The odious BNP nearly won MPs...

What are you talking about? I’m talking about Labour and Tory policies. We need a sensible centre-left/centre-right government to tackle the issue. If they fail then something uglier could follow. The only reason I ‘care’ about immigration as an issue is I see the potential ramifications of...

Well, EU migration has declined so Brexit has delivered on that priority. However, ROW migration is up. I don’t think Farage is the answer, but the electorate clearly does not trust either Labour or Conservative on this issue. Continued failure on this policy objective puts us on a trajectory...

The targets, however, remain the same and there appears to be no desire to make up the shortfall of around 200k houses per year based on net migration alone (there’s more factors to consider). So best case scenario, we just or marginally beat the existing government target. Look, I agree that...