It’s perfectly possible to mitigate such issues. Churchill supported a policy that included the government buying a chunk of an oil company, a strategic reserve etc etc. It’s notable that in two worl… (View Post)

Starmer elevated factionalism to new levels - he expelled a chunk of the parliamentary party and pushed a big chunk of the Labour coalition to vote Green. This led, in part to his downfall. Because i… (View Post)

Keep your Own Party - every party member is, in fact, an individual party. This harnesses the inherent factionalism on the hard left. Since everyone has already split from everyone else, no splits ar… (View Post)

Remember that polls lag events by 1-2 weeks. Lots of people are just discovering Burnham is PM. And, in fact, just discovering Burnham exists. (View Post)

An American friend had occasion to pass through Brown's constituency. When I told him that it was the PMs constituency - and a PM who been second in the country for a decade before that - he was… (View Post)