IIRC Patten and Ridley were both grown up and MPs when the Conservative Party was still united and hungry for power. In contrast, Braverman and Tudgenhat are relative newcomers, and became MPs only w… (View Post)

Yes, we tried it a hundred years ago, but then the First World War got in the way. The Kaiser has a lot to answer for. (View Post)

No need, because with STV it is the voters themselves who decide. (View Post)

Noooooooooooo, Young HY.......... Don't do it........ Here on PB we really do need one sensible Tory to remind us all what the Conservative Party used to be like..... Even though we disagree. You may… (View Post)

Speak for yourself! I am a Liberal. Even so, you do need to bear in mind that when Roy Jenkins stopped being President of the EU and returned to this country, he wanted to join the Liberal Party It w… (View Post)