True, although the usual pattern with single-issue experts brought into government is that they get overwhelmed and frustrated by the whole stack of administrative and political impediments that they… (View Post)

I’m hopeful they’ll be a fairly decent government, but the risk is that they could be like the LibDems in coalition, who did a tremendous amount of good work behind the scenes tinkering with complica… (View Post)

72 incoming (View Post)

If a recount comes out with the opposite result, equally narrowly - which sounds quite possible in the circumstances you descibe, the party that won the first time is pretty much guaranteed a further… (View Post)

Which is the pretty frank and decent answer that Mandleson gave last night, when asked about the low turnout and low Labour share, behind the apparent landslide. The psephological research that needs… (View Post)