I assume he asked for the dissolution at his weekly audience, so before the much-hyped cabinet meeting. In which case, it was a done deal - so why did he need to drag Cameron and Shapps back from the… (View Post)

Agree with most of those, but on your fourth prediction - I suspect that any such scandal would be more likely to be attached to an existing 2015/17/19 intake MP newly promoted to junior ministerial … (View Post)

Yes, it does - but in exactly the same way it did before the voter ID requirements. If the govt had wanted to do this properly, they'd have gone down the route of having a separate voter ID card, wit… (View Post)

It doesn't even do that! There's no way for anyone at the polling station to verify or validate the ID. It's completely useless, but doing anything better would increase the cost of running an electi… (View Post)

"Voters All the "you don't know what you'll get with Labour" stuff was rather let down by his own failure to look at a short-term weather forecast... (View Post)