2018 May 06 - Trump Update + UK Local Elections
The US has spent the week watching the President Trump/James Comey/Stormy Daniels stories continuing to move along with the sort of pace normally more associated with a snail, or a car in London ever since they closed half the roads for bicycle use only. I think the plan is that if Robert Mueller's evidence doesn't turn out to be conclusive enough, Trump will have already been in office for 8 years so he'll have to legally vacate the White House anyway.
So let's talk about London though. There were local elections this week and Jeremy Corbyn had spent weeks planning his next moves and what to do after Labour managed to seize councils like Barnet and Wandsworth as well as all those towns and cities that the metropolitan types only hear about when they're watching Match Of The Day. Unfortunately, things didn't really go according to plan and it was a surprisingly good night for Theresa May, that's an expression you rarely hear about these days.
The Conservatives took control of Barnet council along with Plymouth and other decentish wins all over the place. Although the big story of the night was really the revival of the Lib Dems, Vince Cable was even sighted on television without his trademark hat on. It says a lot that if you've see a LibDem politician on television in the past 6 months, it was probably a BBC4 documentary about the Iraq War. Nonetheless, they made good gains in London and you can't fault them, at least they're honest about what they stand for. Compare and contrast with UKIP who depending on the time of day are either a protest vote, a Brexit lobbying group, a tax write-off for donors, a way for Henry Bolton to meet young ladies or in some cases actual politicians with local policies they want to pursue. Unfortunately UKIP is a lot like many other acronyms, in that you have to look it up on the internet to find out what they stand for. The problem with ideological parties generally is that for the most part they don't get enough numbers at the ballot box to win power, but the problem for parties with no ideology is that they end up with Theresa May, the political equivalent of that DVD player you keep meaning to stick in the spare room on give to charity.
So let's talk about London though. There were local elections this week and Jeremy Corbyn had spent weeks planning his next moves and what to do after Labour managed to seize councils like Barnet and Wandsworth as well as all those towns and cities that the metropolitan types only hear about when they're watching Match Of The Day. Unfortunately, things didn't really go according to plan and it was a surprisingly good night for Theresa May, that's an expression you rarely hear about these days.
The Conservatives took control of Barnet council along with Plymouth and other decentish wins all over the place. Although the big story of the night was really the revival of the Lib Dems, Vince Cable was even sighted on television without his trademark hat on. It says a lot that if you've see a LibDem politician on television in the past 6 months, it was probably a BBC4 documentary about the Iraq War. Nonetheless, they made good gains in London and you can't fault them, at least they're honest about what they stand for. Compare and contrast with UKIP who depending on the time of day are either a protest vote, a Brexit lobbying group, a tax write-off for donors, a way for Henry Bolton to meet young ladies or in some cases actual politicians with local policies they want to pursue. Unfortunately UKIP is a lot like many other acronyms, in that you have to look it up on the internet to find out what they stand for. The problem with ideological parties generally is that for the most part they don't get enough numbers at the ballot box to win power, but the problem for parties with no ideology is that they end up with Theresa May, the political equivalent of that DVD player you keep meaning to stick in the spare room on give to charity.
The US has spent the week watching the President Trump/James Comey/Stormy Daniels stories continuing to move along with the sort of pace normally more associated with a snail, or a car in London ever since they closed half the roads for bicycle use only. I think the plan is that if Robert Mueller's evidence doesn't turn out to be conclusive enough, Trump will have already been in office for 8 years so he'll have to legally vacate the White House anyway.
So let's talk about London though. There ......
So let's talk about London though. There ......