When Brown was PM, their was a vote on parliament: the government position was that Lisbon should br ratified, the Tory amendment was, I think, that there should be a referendum. There were enough La… (View Post)

FPT: Imagine a world where we'd had a referendum on the Lisbon treaty. We could have arrived at a world where there was a happy consensus on Europe - this far but no further. The great missed op… (View Post)

Well yes. He will certainly have to start taking decisions which people fall on the wrong side of. But he doesn't have the same anti-charisma that Starmer does which makes people start out hatin… (View Post)

It's interesting: the electorate seems to have no expectation that things will get better under Burnham but be happy that he's there. My interpretation is that people are just enjoying havi… (View Post)

I'd have thought India playing test cricket against Australia in England would be a more commercially-attractive proposition. AIUI, it's quite hard to motivate Indian crowds to turn out to … (View Post)