There’s an unwritten rule in England, and I’m not talking about the one that involves buses. Patriotism is meant to be at the core of every true Englishman, a burning love for Queen and Country. But it’s hard to love either under such dire circumstances, the last remnants of an […]
Last Thursday’s general election saw unprecedented changes to the North East political landscape, with traditionally Labour strongholds being won over by the Conservatives. Blyth Valley was particularly controversial, having been a Labour seat since its creation in 1950. Other surprises included Darlington, and Sedgefield, which turned blue after 84 years […]
Labour MP’s Emma Lewell-Buck and Kate Osborne have seen off Conservative challenges and kept Jarrow and Tyneside red. Newly elected Kate Osborne, a North Tyneside Councillor, kept her seat despite finding her majority cut by 10,000 votes compared to her predecessor Stephen Hepburn. Hepburn was barred from standing as a […]
Attentive members of the public may have noticed the catastrophic polling Labour pulled off in the 2019 General Election. Figures that have not been so low in nearly eighty years were beaten in what can be described as the worst attempt at beating a world record. Labour are strewn […]
The bleak accuracy of the election poll sounded the death bell for four years of Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour leadership, the swift rise and fall of whoever Jo Swinson was and the sharp realisation that Brexit is going to flounder around under the hand of a man that hid in a […]
Two thirds of the applications to register to vote have come from people under 35, meaning nearly 1.5 million young people have just registered to vote. According to YouGov, young people across the UK find that the likes of Brexit and the environment are the most important issues facing the […]
Boris Johnson’s party has won the general election by a landslide. At 5:02am this morning it was announced that the Conservative Party had won the general election. The Conservatives were the first party to surpass 326 seats, and had a huge gain of 46 seats at the time of their […]
After concerns from the Labour Party that they could lose traditional seats in last night’s election, they still have Sunderland as a stronghold. Houghton and Sunderland South were the first to come through with their result, with Labour winning the count by 3,115, based on a 58% turnout. They have been […]
Jeremy Corbyn has announced he will not run as leader in the next general election, after a second loss in a general election. With the Conservatives set to win a comfortable majority, Corbyn has admitted that the result is “very disappointing” as support crumbled in previous Labour strongholds. He has […]
Today I was asked ‘if you could vote, who would you vote for?’ As a Spanish student living and studying in Sunderland, I said labour. To be honest I’m not the most knowledgeable about politics, and furthermore I’ve been here for only around three months so I’m still trying to […]