The English figure is actually about the average UK figure for Prime Ministers over the last 45 years. And since in that time governments have generally gone on to be reelected and England is what ma… (View Post)

I'm afraid you're violating the number one rule of mid-term governments - never believe it's brilliance when flakiness, misunderstanding and incompetence explain it just as well. (View Post)

Blair and Campbell did lie publicly and provocatively - in particular the 24 hous to save the NHS that they put out before the 1997 election, and the "no plans" to introduce tuition fees (t… (View Post)

Direct democracy is the way forward. Would force voters to educate themselves about political issues rather than just seeing it as a soap opera for ugly people where they have to vote contestants in … (View Post)

Four other reasons to think that Sunak is rubbish: - his department has raised taxes mainly to subsidise the elderly affluent at the expense of the working population, against an explicit manifesto p… (View Post)