Every leadership election poses a choice between the candidate closest to your views and the candidate most likely to succeed electorally. Comment tends to favour the latter overwhelmingly, but there… (View Post)

I was a bit pessimistic on the basis of my 3 days there, but necessarily I could only cover some of the wards. It looks as though Burnham will get a decent margin. (View Post)

Overnight. (View Post)

As someone who at least nominally agrees with you on party preference, I think with respect that you've got the tone wrong for PB. Shorter, less shouty, posts are more effective here. (View Post)

Listening to the MP who has reintroduced it, I think she envisages the Parliament Act power as a bargaining chip - fine to amend the Bill in the Lords to improve it, but impose another artificial blo… (View Post)