Given the Tories are 3rd or even 4th in some polls the Tories can't play safe. 16% under PR would be manageable, the Tories would still get 100 odd MPs, 16% under FPTP sees most Tory MPs lose their s… (View Post)

Sorry to hear your news Cyclefree. Thanks for your detailed and informative articles and best wishes for your treatment (View Post)

Great news for Redbridge and Birmingham and Leicester Labour though (View Post)

In the sense that France has its own nuclear deterrent fully independent of the US yes. France also withdrew from NATO under De Gaulle in 1966 and did not rejoin until Sarkozy in 2009 (View Post)

They don't want the government taking their house or their farm. Hence May's dementia tax and Starmer's family farm and business tax were so unpopular (View Post)