One interesting point for me is that the Greens are really only starting to get into the need to retain significant numbers of councillors rather than win new ones game. How many they keep will be in… (View Post)

The Fitness First note is interesting - I think they are pay-as-you-go, like Puregym. I'd call middle market more like Virgin or Bannatyne, with David Lloyd a slight cut above. Crossfit etc fit … (View Post)

The Tory candidate at the previous election was one (different) Susan Hall, as it happens. It's interesting. The Eastleigh Council makeup is Liberal Democrats 35 Independent 3 Conservative 1 So … (View Post)

Reading the definition, it seems quite incoherent, and particularly to stretch "upper middle class" so thin as to take it beyond breaking point. "Upper middle class" surely is a t… (View Post)

My TLDR to that is that a lot of promises were made, which the current Govt failed to deliver, following an expression pride in failing to deliver, and a circling of wagons around old refuges. My tak… (View Post)