Author Archives: Kevin Bennett

Kevin Bennett

Paddy & President Jed Bartlet can’t both be wrong – Education should be our flagship

By Kevin Bennett | Thu 16th January 2020 - 11:10 am

Embed from Getty Images

Pretty much everyone has a view on why we had a bad election and, more importantly, what we should do next. I’m a member of Barnsley local party and here are my two cents…

Johnson’s Tories look like they have weathered the storm and are in for a few stable years as a version of Trumps Republicans, appealing to the English rustbelt and the odd white supremacist.

They may be untouchable for a while.

We have just experienced our third bad (so very bad) election in a row.

However Labour, by its standards, has had a shocker. They have not won an election now in 14 years.

Continue reading »
Posted in Op-eds | Tagged and | 52 Comments
Advert

Recent Comments

  • David Allen
    In other news, Ed Davey lurches back to the Right: "Sir Ed’s tax cuts may be smart politics, parking Lib Dem tanks on Tory territory. But they are a world ...
  • David Raw
    @ Paul R. And to heck with the 99.8% referendum vote by the Falklanders for the status quo, eh, Paul ?...
  • Paul R
    Time to finish decolonisation and just give them to Argentina. It is hypocritical to go about “occupied territory” in the Middle East while continuing to...
  • Johnmc
    Enjoy conference, although I remain supportive of the party in England I cannot stomach its bizarre and frankly illiberal efforts to stifle even the idea that p...
  • Jack Nicholls
    You are for this and so many reasons a total inspiration to me Caron ☺️🔶🌈...