Moving in polite urban northern middle class circles as I do, most of the time, and consuming broadcast media, I have never really heard much criticism of Labour since the days of John Smith*. It was… (View Post)

FPTP benefits the winning party, rather than specifically Labour. (View Post)

This exercise is really hard to do, and all sorts of caveats apply. There was an excellent study done after the 1992 GE ('replaying the 1992 election', or something like that) which for me … (View Post)

I'm quite disappointed by the Tories positioning on this. WFA was a Gordon Brown bung. It wasn't good government. The country can't afford bungs. And there is so much else to go at the… (View Post)

That's the age group for whom communism is an attractive theoretical concept rather than a horrific reality afflicting huge populations of the world. (View Post)