Tim Bale

Professor Tim Bale is an academic at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of The Conservative Party: From Thatcher to Cameron'" and "Five Year Mission: The Labour Party Under Ed Miliband".

His main research interests are in the fields of British, European and Comparative politics, especially in relation to centre-right and conservative politics.

He was the founding convenor of the Political Studies Association specialist group on Conservatives and Conservatism, which brings together leading scholars with an academic interest in this area.

The man does have an understanding of international politics as well. The term 'sold down the river' does not apply only to USA political history, but that of all colonial powers, whose common rationality made the 'river' an economic, political, societal term for exploitation. To wit: "Both of them are populists in the sense that they believe they are tribunes of the people who they contend have been sold down the river by the elite for too long," said Professor Tim Bale, one of Britain's leading political analysts. <http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/06/us-usa-britain-trump-corbyn-idUSKCN0QB1T820150806>