The Generation Game

Pitching older people against younger ones is callous, shortsighted and cynical. If the Tories have nothing to offer young people apart from a half baked national service scheme, they will eventually run out of voters…

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Huge Gamble

In his latest blog, Jim thinks the Prime Minister has taken a huge gamble in calling a General Election whilst the polls remain so strongly against him.

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Taking the party out of Mayoral politics

Can good performing mayors ever overcome the sailings of their national colleagues? Frank McKenna reflects on the recent local election and mayoral results, and how they were hijacked by Westminster politicians.

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A troubled world

Jim thinks the Democrats need to take drastic action to stop Donald Trump leading the free world in very troubled times.

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Anyone welcome in the Labour party!

In his blog, Jim argues that Labour doesn’t need Tory right wing MP defectors after a series of local election triumphs. Read his full analysis of the current political scene and a bit of nostalgia from the Manchester of forty years ago.

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