The one advantage that the Conservatives have is that, from the point of view of voters, despite everything, they remain a credible party of government. Many will struggle to see Farage/Reform in tha… (View Post)

Sadly, the cycles (just like elections) turn. A riposte courtesy of Ezra Pound: “Winter is icummen in, Lhude sing Goddamm, Raineth drop and staineth slop And how the wind doth ramm! Sing: Goddamm. Sk… (View Post)

My second-hand experience of council politics is that a lot of elected councillors prove to be pretty unbiddable, and that's with members of established parties, with local party apparatuses, and a d… (View Post)

There's nothing "conservative" about Reform. They want to break the whole place up. They are populists - a different thing altogether. (View Post)

Rural Northumberland likely to be fairly resilient though I note Tories actually held on in the towns - Ponteland, Cramlington, Morpeth. Reform seem to have done for Labour in the more industrial par… (View Post)