I thought Scotland was invented by the Victorians? With Scotland's highland culture back-projected onto the entire contemporary nation despite lowland peoples having none of that language, cultu… (View Post)

We also know people take time to understand how transferable votes (as in STV or AV) work - voters' first assumption is often that it's like Eurovision and that a party somehow benefits fro… (View Post)

This from the Guardian is worth a read, about the deep roots of Labour’s impending failure in London; in particular the origins of the housing crisis and Labour’s failure on housing during the Blair … (View Post)

If you look at the council composition, as well as four LibDems, there are a group of various independents, many under the "Island Independents Network" banner, who are essentially centre-l… (View Post)

"Vote for us - we're not noticeably more useless than the Tories you've been used to" How far has our politics sunk? (View Post)