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)

I like John, but doubt if anyone campaigning on a "spend more on defence" ticket would get more than 10% of the vote of Labour members. It's a perfectly understandable decision for a D… (View Post)

59 to go for me (by which time I'll be 135), but the honeymoon sense of (re)marrying late in life is lovely. I've had a very interesting and varied life but intense, durable love is a delig… (View Post)

I'm sceptical - I only met one voter out of maybe 200 who was going Restore. On repeated canvassing, it's only people who express doubt who are canvassed multiple times, and they mostly app… (View Post)

Presumably mentioning him specifically increases his vote (a known phenomenon) even of the mention is unwelcome (one would have thought!). (View Post)