Vance in Munich: “So I come here today not just with an observation, but with an offer. And just as the Biden administration seemed desperate to silence people for speaking their minds, so the Trump … (View Post)

This year, for the first time in history, immigration from the US into Europe has exceeded emigration from Europe to the US. (View Post)

Up to a point. The problems are, as you say, intractable and to a fair extent beyond the influence of councillors. But bad councillors can make things a lot worse than a set of competent ones do. (View Post)

It is. One of the reasons I favour PR (a rate point of agreement with Farage, though I'm sceptical he'd do anything about it if he actually got into government) is that it offers at least t… (View Post)

A touch of strawmanning in that argument. It's not "demonising" them to point out the likely futility of their choices. Many of us are just as frustrated with the efforts of the former… (View Post)