A niche point is that a number of animal welfare charities have approached all the main UK parties to ask for commitments to improved welfare. The score so far: LibDems and Labour: invited to detaile… (View Post)

Not exactly. The very sharp age bias highlighted by TSE is relatively new. You used to be able to predict voting intention by income. That is now almost entirely irrelevant - it's predominantly about… (View Post)

A sense of purpose and direction is normally required in a successful political party. Even if people don't agree with it at first, there may come a time when they decide to give it a try (cf. Thatch… (View Post)

Interesting leading article by RP - thanks! I see what Sunak is trying to get us to think: 1. "There's a lot of dangerous radical Muslims. Help!" 2. "Even Galloway has been elected by … (View Post)

Turnout was 39.7% - very respectable for a by-election. So we can't really say it's because an abnormal number of people sat it out. (View Post)