Party Politics

  • Alice Weidel needs to ignore the others

    It’s not easy doing your job at the same time that chancers are peddling their lies, gravitating in the same camps as if these are battle lines that have been drawn. The similarity is helpful if it juxtaposes a person against their opposition to be seen as a contender. It’s unhelpful if everything ugly about your partner is kept on show, too.

    Alice Weidel speaking for her party, the AfD, at CPAC 2026 in Hungary.

    Alice Weidel, the leader of AfD, is a class act in German politics, and doesn’t need the bloated nonsense of Hungary’s leader, but if she seeks it maybe it’s for political purposes later. Her appearance at CPAC 2026 in Budapest is everything it should be, minus the setting. Weidel could do much better.

    Her platform is largely self-built, so say international sources, and she has a lot to go on by herself. There’s no need to be heard, just a fact of the matter leadership bid to continue for a campaign for real power in government. This is singular leadership in the modern world. It promises to be freeing if it stays just, and is right.

  • Reform UK is up and away

    The nation’s upstart is on a mission to run itself, and Reform UK has taken on a big hitter in Robert Jenrick MP (Newark/Reform UK) to continue its pace and to up the anti against any naysayers.

    Its effort is in need of a lot more energy, similar to the verve it’s shown beyond the gates.

    This requires a strong party whip acting as a team when it matters, and keeps the party straight. In Parliamentary rules, the unwritten one is that party volunteers are the best at this for a smaller party.

    But, it’s all a decision for those in the game, and Jenrick may now have his say on what matters, but it’s a group effort. I wonder what their head office thinks?

  • Your Party celebrate new subscribers

    Zarah Sultana MP (Coventry South/Independent) has marked interest for Your Party.

    It’s a new effort to take on the political establishment in Lefty style.

    It’ll never be clear what it is and its aims will verge on criminal.

    However, it’ll keep people happy meanwhile.

    The reactions to her post show its direction of travel in the UK’s difficult political scene.

    “I’ve signed up for the bants, doesn’t mean I’m going to vote for you”, says one user (@BLAIMGame).

    “Soon to be the first British party with one million members”, Council Estate News predicts.

  • As spending goes up, so do defences

    The legacy stakes are high at this point. A Premier’s term is his or hers to own, but there’s always worry it won’t go well. The belief in a set of policies can get punctured by disappoints – and defeat.

    Sir Keir Starmer’s Plan For Change, a bold initiative from a Premier who got past his first personal test of ridding the Labour party of antisemitism, is his game changing stab at ultimate power.

    The announcement yesterday of an historic funding increase for the Armed services is appropriate, but it’s also a step into Tory heartland. It’s where defence has often also mattered more than not.

    Labour’s landslide victory is becoming a profitable policy point scoring exercise. It’s a spin doctor’s military drill, taking in many targets. A testy change of focus, it also means Starmer is on a warpath.