The paper story is simply a slight rewrite and cutdown of Shipman's more colourful piece at https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/can-boris-johnson-weather-the-coming-storm-tbcj89fjn (View Post)

They fetishise the ideology of the free market in the US, but in practice they can be really quite bad at it, because their politics is vulnerable to regulatory capture by large corporations. For exa… (View Post)

I live securely in Middle England: almost as Middle as you can get. C.100 miles to the sea in just about any direction), traditional Tory Parliamentary majority (though currently LibDem-led County an… (View Post)

The important question isn't really "how realistic are the chances today (May 23, 2022) of such a pact? It's "how likely is the publicity round this poll to force die-hard local activists t… (View Post)

The Somerset County Council website is now reporting that the LibDems have taken the 56 seats they need for an absolute majority on the new Somerset unitary authority https://democracy.somerset.gov.u… (View Post)