It's interesting that this is more true in Britain than many other countries. Coalitions with tiny majorities survive for years in Germany and Scandinavia, and the Senate decisions all seem to c… (View Post)

What is the usual process on this? If I break a law and am issued an FPN, normally it wouldn't be interesting enough for the press to publish it, but is there actually a rule one way or the othe… (View Post)

There are of course two issues here - is Blunt entitled to express his opinion, and is it sensible? The answer to the first is surely yes, and as I said yesterday I give him some credit for expressin… (View Post)

By the way, contyrary to what some of us thought yesterday, the recall process, if triggered by court action, does not (according to the Guardian) kick in until all appeals have been exhausted, so th… (View Post)

He's genuinely open-minded. He's by no means left-wing, but I remember him as often the only Tory willing to sign an EDM on a left-wing issue, because he happened to agree with it. But ther… (View Post)