Yup... nothing to do with ensuring that by doing it when it comes to 2034 the only Federations not to have hosted the previous 2 times are Asia and Oceania... and so the 2034 Saudi bid was unopposed.… (View Post)

Just to note (which highlights Labour's problem if this was their 8th safest seat) that the wards which make up the Hornsey & Friern Barnet seat only just voted Labour on Thursday... Lab - 1… (View Post)

I'm tempted by the 16/1 on 0 by-elections this year partly as a proxy hedge (if there is a by-election, then chances are that I can make money on it - if there are none, then the opportunity is … (View Post)

It seems to me that part of the issue is that we've had complicators rather than simplifiers for the best part of the last 30 years. Both Brown and Osborne were complicators - always fiddling wi… (View Post)

BIB - Maybe I'm wrong but I didn't think that it was Schumer who folded - but 8 random Dems who stopped following Schumer's line? (Now there's a separate point about should he hav… (View Post)