Trump has been elected by the American people. I don't like or support him, but I value those who can help me see his appeal from their point of view and the politics of it - I find it helpful f… (View Post)

Yes. I imagine the backbenches to be made up of lots of Ed Milibands and Owen Jones's, at various states in the process, but all going in the same direction. (View Post)

Worse, I think there's a large chunk of the population who'd enthusiastically support it. I think it was @edmundintokyo who said the British people hate freedom. I dismissed it at the time,… (View Post)

Which is a weak excuse. Labour are in government now. It's been their choice to levy higher employers NI, higher minimum wages, more employment regulation, more business rates and now, potential… (View Post)

Labour backbenchers, if they don't view private business as fundamentally a criminal enterprise, otherwise view them as an instrument of public policy and a cash cow. (View Post)