We might have been like Switzerland and not joined the EU in the first place, because it is incompatible with Swiss direct democracy. In fact, a main difficulty with direct democracy is that it's vir… (View Post)

Would you really want Rayner, Lammy, Reeves and all the other socialist idiots acting like they had a majority of 174? The country can just about cope with their incompetence and spite as long as the… (View Post)

Not really true. Norway in 1938 had a higher GDP/head than the UK. https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/o6zp6y/gdp_per_capita_in_europe_preww2/#lightbox In 1960 it was slightly lower than the UK… (View Post)

You'd have to separate Churchill, I think, as he was basically two PMs - wartime where he obviously triumphed, despite having dealt a very difficult hand, and peacetime, where he failed in just about… (View Post)

I think people are much too harsh on Johnson, who had moments of sheer inspiration, as when he delivered the largest democratic vote for anything in British history, and so probably saved democracy h… (View Post)