I've made this point before - but political flags strike me as ever so slightly rude. It would be like me coming up to you in the street, unannounced, and declaring 'Vote Conservative!'… (View Post)

Yes, and it would have resulted in exactly the same thing - anyone right of Tony Blair would have retreated in wary terror of what Labour might do; anyone left of Gordon Brown would have either stopp… (View Post)

I don't think that last line is true. But the point about HS2 for Manchester is not primarily that it would have offered someone in suburban south Manchester or semi-suburban Cheshire the opport… (View Post)

To be fair to TimS, his subsequent analogy of what a Labour equivalent would be is both good and I think original. (View Post)

In defence of the 2019 Cons: 1) Almost anything was better than Corbyn, and 2) While Levelling Up was, er, a challenging aim, it was a worthwhile one and one I believed in and still do. But a challen… (View Post)