That’s basically my story. Gave up full time work very early, to do full time local politics, and when the electorate moved on, didn’t fancy returning to full time employment. (View Post)

You should be worrying about coming third (or worse), next time around. Sensible educated middle class folk won’t vote for you after the Brexit-Johnson-Truss fruitloop shitshow, and working class Bre… (View Post)

It was, back when I took on a safe Tory ward there with a majority of a thousand and flipped it to a LibDem ward with similar majority, and held it for the successive five elections (despite Clegg’s … (View Post)

History suggests that unseating prominent ministers is actually quite difficult. He’s a lot more prominent now, in cabinet, than he was in opposition. Voters like having a ‘big name’ MP. Yes, there w… (View Post)

Income isn’t the relevant indicator, though. Wealth is. Since 2008 especially, asset price appreciation has been the issue. The successive minimum wage increases have delivered a reasonable % increas… (View Post)