If it was all the Dems doing they would be able to replace Johnson with someone more amenable. They can't, because it isn't. Anyway, important thing is that the chance of the House voting m… (View Post)

That's what I'm thinking. Definitely a factor was that the voters in Wellingborough decided that the choice of Conservative candidate was taking the piss, and so an example needed to be mad… (View Post)

Crewe and Nantwich (2008) really stands out as a by-election where the turnout only declined marginally (-1.8%) from the preceding general election, and so the winning party (Con) not only achieved a… (View Post)

The Tories choose Bone's girlfriend as their candidate; Labour select an anti-semitic conspiracy theorist. Does this say more about how shit a job being an MP is, rather than how rubbish the pol… (View Post)

I think the world, particularly the urban world, is oversaturated with advertising already. I really don't need more in the form of selling off naming rights for train lines. Then you have the p… (View Post)