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Labour mainstream always used to allow/facilitate a hard left candidate in their leadership elections, so blaming Beckett for Corbyn is a tad unfair (though she is partially culpable). EdM is far mor… (View Post)

I've read several commentators emphasising that this car crash is the Tory members' fault. They take a large part of the blame, but at least an equal part must lie at the feet of the 113 MPs who vote… (View Post)

I disagree with your first point; throughout human history we've recognised that most groups of people (from empires to orchestras to cricket teams) need one person to lead them -- a "controllin… (View Post)

In their last couple of leadership elections, both main parties have managed to elect an extremist who did/does not enjoy anything like enough support from their parliamentary party and who would nev… (View Post)

I agree Truss is toast, Mike, but I don't see how she goes. VoNC? Can't happen in her first year of office, I don't think. Enough letters go in to make the 1922 Committee change the rules in that reg… (View Post)