That is clearly rubbish. A coalition is an agreement between the [two] parties on a slate of policies that they can both agree on. It therefore excludes unpopular policies that elected dictatorships … (View Post)

In general people don't care about detailed policies. People don't read manifestos. I suspect that it is rare that a voter would agree with every policy in a manifesto if they cared to read… (View Post)

I agree with all that. I have a suspicion that Netanyahu has supported Hamas because Hamas makes a peace agreement impossible so that Netanyahu can continue to establish "facts on the ground&quo… (View Post)

.. Disaster mode has been turned on in our simulation. The player must be bored. I hope she doesn't just turn us off. (View Post)

:smile: I'm hardly a right wing Tory! And I'm a pensioner in my eighties. (View Post)