No a referendum in 1996 would have been lost by the government badly and ripped his party apart in a divisive Portillo v Heseltine civil war to replace Major (View Post)
Major got the opt out from the single currency and social chapter too, he sensibly unlike Cameron avoided holding referendums as he recognised that they are unpredictable, divisive, populist and can … (View Post)
Glastonbury is Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn, Caroline Lucas heartland with a crowd who would prefer purist leftwing woke Labour leaders who lose but stay true to their socialist principles than a centris… (View Post)
Arguably Ted Heath too (who was borderline lower middle class/skilled working class by parentage) who also more matches Starmer's charmless personality and had an Oxford degree like Sir Keir but unli… (View Post)