James Allan

1 week ago | dailysceptic.org | James Allan

The writer is in Australia. What Anglosphere country presently offers Right-of-centre voters the least hope for change? I don’t think there is much debate that the answer to that question is ‘Australia’.

2 weeks ago | dailysceptic.org | James Allan

The writer is in Australia. The Left-of-centre (make that Left-of-the-Canadian-centre, which is mightily Left wing) Liberal Party has won Monday’s federal election in Canada. Mark Carney, who was substituted in to replace Justin Trudeau, brought the Liberals back from 20 points down in the polls. As of writing, Carney and the Liberals look likely to win 168 or 169 seats. That’s short of the needed 172 for a majority. The Poilievre Tories have won 145 or so seats.

2 weeks ago | dailysceptic.org | James Allan

The writer is in Australia. When the so-called ‘moderate’ MPs in a Westminster conservative political party remove a sitting Prime Minister from their own party, one who has delivered a majority government but is to the right of these moderates, the long-term effects are not good. Back in 1990, and after delivering 11 years of majority governments, Maggie Thatcher was knifed by the wets or moderates in the British Tory party. It is arguable that the party has never recovered.

3 weeks ago | spectator.com.au | James Allan

When the so-called ‘moderate’ MPs in a Westminster conservative political party remove a sitting prime minister from their own party, one who has delivered a majority government but is to the right of these moderates, the long-term effects are not good. Back in 1990, and after delivering eleven years of majority governments, Maggie Thatcher was knifed by the wets or moderates in the British Tory party.

4 weeks ago | dailysceptic.org | James Allan

The writer is in Australia. Canada’s looming election will take place on Monday April 28th, five days before Australia’s. It seems to me that a lot of commentators here in Australia don’t really understand the key differences in the two countries’ electoral and voting systems and so make fundamental errors when commenting on what’s happening in the Great White North. So let me run through the divergences that really matter before telling you how I think the Canadian election is shaping up.