Something like 1% of Tower Hamlets is Pakistani-heritage. It's likely impossible to say whether Rahman attracts any more support in that community than among say Turks or the French. As for Khan… (View Post)

Because next to nobody knows Hall and the election is a year away. (View Post)

I feel the same narrative is true of a lot of times in history, like the Industrial Revolution, the Thirty Years' War, the Reformation, and so on. Perhaps it was a more gradual process. (View Post)

Complaints about "housing developers" tell you what these people are aiming for. A sort of state-controlled housing sector where workers get taxed to house non-workers like arts students. (View Post)

My guess is the average voter does not yet know it is a FPTP election, and Labour will stage the mother of all bar-chart campaigns. I do not see a world where the LDs avoid getting squeezed to 5% or … (View Post)