Shes not unintelligent and clearly interested in the thinking and ideas aspects of politics. Some people like that make decent ministers, if they also have reasonable judgement and some managerial ab… (View Post)

The Tories still haven't moved on, at all. They still seem to think that Brexit means we can ignore the EU or somehow exist and trade just outside one of the world's largest trading blocs a… (View Post)

The oddity is that in policy terms, the two parties aren’t interchangeable, the Greens increasingly Corbynite since Labour has expelled so many of its leftists, yet in the electorate’s eyes they are,… (View Post)

Possibly the one remaining reason why we should keep the shameful charade that is our PMQs? Such in the US would have sunk both Biden and Trump. (View Post)

I agree, but would position it slightly differently. Growing up with parents who were Tory members, it always struck me that their self image was essentially of being sensible, non-political people -… (View Post)