"Success" in government is measured by column inches in newspapers, not by the actual results of the policy, which won't show up till past the next election and are complex and probabl… (View Post)

Statistically leader ratings are a worse guide to the result of the next general election than voting intention, though neither is much use till 3-6 months before the poll. I set this out in a thread… (View Post)

The thing missing with Sunak is the Vision thing. He has yet to present a clear vision of where he wants to take the country, and to convince enough people that tomorrow will be better than today. It… (View Post)

But I thought Brexit doomed the Union? Or was this just yet another Remainer mistake/lie, along with the 5 million unemployed and international irrelevance that we're still waiting for? (View Post)

If we had boiling heat in this country for more than a few days a year I might agree with you. But I've lived in the southern US, and that taught me to appreciate our own fairly mild, pleasant s… (View Post)