If the referendum had been called by a government that wanted to leave, then it would be reasonable to expect that government to have an agreed idea of broadly the Brexit they wanted to implement, wh… (View Post)

That said - and it may be an end-point artifact of the LOESS smooth - but there's a curious pattern on the opinion poll graph on Wikipedia. Reform, Tories, Labour and Lib Dems are all declining,… (View Post)

My experience of the civil service is that people didn't want to risk being seen as political at all, because they wanted to keep their job when the party in charge changed. Accusations of an ob… (View Post)

As an aside, when the status quo is membership of something, and the change proposed is to leave that thing, a positive case for membership is pretty hard to distinguish from a negative argument abou… (View Post)

Why would it be the Greens splitting the vote and not Labour doing so? That argument has always annoyed me as it implies that Labour own the votes of their voters. They don't. If Labour aren… (View Post)