Also seems likely to drive us much more back into the EU's orbit. If America abandons Europe then alliances, good relations and collaboration becomes much more important. Which is not to say we rejoi… (View Post)

Yup. To some extent all our political systems rely on party elites to vet those in leadership roles to weed out those who may have an appeal but have disqualifying traits. Here in the UK both parties… (View Post)

There's some truth to that. But I think The Sun has become so entangled with the Tories, as opposed to just backing them, it will struggle to extract itself. Harry Cole for example would be a laughin… (View Post)

Indeed. The most significant PM of the past 50 years was Thatcher. While excluding Covid, which was non-parisan, the biggest event of the past 10 is Brexit. We had a New Labour interregnum but many o… (View Post)

Yes. And if you look of the age profiles of leave and remain, many of those voting leave did so as they remembered back to a time before went in and believed it a happier one. The same is likely in r… (View Post)