The Russians are deluded. Everybody knows that since leaving the EU we are utterly irrelevant in global politics, nobody is paying any attention to us and the EU is now the leader of the free world. (View Post)

The realisation that a left-wing government probably wouldn't win in the UK again, so socialism would have to come from bypassing democracy with rules from Brussels. And the bigwigs could get lu… (View Post)

Surely all MPs who voted for the emergency powers and the laws drafted under them are responsible for them? I think Starmer is just as responsible, and indeed often begged the Government to go furthe… (View Post)

On that, a formerly very senior Conservative Cabinet minister who knows Johnson well said more or less the same thing (minus the language) to me late last year. Boris just wants it too much. But then… (View Post)

I think as importantly Labour didn't really win - the Lib Dems and greens did - so these local elections are classic midterm protests rather than a vote for an alternative government. (View Post)