Important to take into account in the 70% non-Reform vote is that it is very varied by geography, and in the main obvious who the alternative is. (View Post)

Truss put the cart before the horse. She cut taxes to grow the economy. Thatcher did the opposite. She put up taxes (doubling VAT from 8% to 15%) and put up interest rates in order to squeeze out inf… (View Post)

Starmer famously said that if we didn't like the changes he made then the door is open. So Labour voters not liking the changes have left. (View Post)

Despite her Grantham origins, Thatcher was very London focused. Her seat was there and she cared a lot about the City, and not much at all about the areas that we now know as the Red Wall. (View Post)

The "chaos in local government will discredit Reform/Greens/Gaza Independents" argument is one born of complacency. So many local government duties are set by national government that there… (View Post)