At the start of the year the most vulnerable political leader in the British Isles might have been Rishi Sunak. Today, Leo Varadkar is gone and best forgotten, Jeffery Donaldson is gone (no comment), and there is Rishi in his Adidas Sambas still sitting around in the big chair.
Change happens and events shape change. Reform may not be ready to take seats, but it certainly able to make its mark on the political landscape, perhaps not in 2024. For the DUP it means hanging on to incumbency as the best offer to the electorate, while for Rishi that's unlikely to be an option.
Will Labour find that the ability to use social policy as a distraction to economic challenges will simply not be available to it in Government, the way both Blair and Cameron used hunting and gay marriage respectively.
No party, no candidate has the right to be elected. Let the people decide...
Let's be honest.
Electoral tsunami?
Losing is the new Winning
The House of Sturgeon falls.
Greater expectations
No bridges nor breakthroughs
What’s the big deal?
Time and tides.
Not the silly season.
Stormont in mothballs
Reading the Stormont Election Runes
Crisis redux
New Year, same old...
It’s the data stupid
Devil in the Detail
Short on reasons
Protocol, Policing and Polls
NI Protocol, Judicial Review, and constitutional risks.
Politics, personalities, policies?
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free