I broadly agree with Jonathan, as you'd expect - politics is satisfying and fun if you don't get too bothered by losing some battles. Being a town councillor varies enormously. They can do … (View Post)

Another development is that the Government, which initially deemed all EU regulation to be still in force (with a change from "responsible to the EU" to "responsible to the UK Governme… (View Post)

Allow for obvious bias, but I talked to scores of them, generally very amicably (people of all persuasions generally like animals - I agreed with one veteran canvasser that we weren't nervous ab… (View Post)

Perhaps, but you're positing that a lot of those 52% are lying or deceiving themselves. I do meet 2019 Tory voters who are prepared to switch to Labour as a sensible alternative, but not the Lib… (View Post)

You're assuming people move along a left-right axis, so in departing from the Conservatives their natural next stop is the LibDems. Most people don't think in those orderly terms. They thin… (View Post)