The learning point is not so much about Labour - who so could easily drop back to where they were given an unpopular decision or two - but about the underlying fragility of what has looked like a �… (View Post)

Yesterday 0600 was 22C in my garden; after a day of early cloud and then hot sunshine, the thermometer had risen to 24C by the end of the afternoon; this morning it sits back at 21C at 0700. I have n… (View Post)

The other consideration is that, unlike for parliaments and principal councils, where deploying say a third of their numbers to the job of 'opposing' arguably serves a worthwhile purpose in… (View Post)

And, strangely, those posters who liked adding up Ref+Con and comparing it to Lab+LD+Green+SNP stopped doing so, by coincidence around the same time that the former total no longer exceeded the latte… (View Post)

The oft advocated strategy of looking to lay the favourite generally works out very well on BFE, as you ride the swings of over-confidence that whatever looks most likely now will stay so when the be… (View Post)