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, an… (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)

Nearly all LibDem seats are blue-facing. If they end up in coalition with Labour, say sfter a close election next time, their support will tank. That's their problem - surviving electorally if i… (View Post)