Yes, Alton was a Lib/LibDem MP during my Liberal activist phase and I was rather glad, as it turned out, that he wasn't my candidate. (View Post)

O/t but Mrs C had, today, a text purporting to be from an official body to do with car-parking to the effect that she had a large number of unresolved parking tickets and if she didn't pay up the aut… (View Post)

I remember, as a schoolboy, standing in the playground and watching a “doodlebug” overhead. Suddenly it’s taillight went out and the teachers rushed us all into the air-raid shelters. (View Post)

Surely Farage is only doing what most of us have criticised Starmer for not doing; talking about broad principles well before the election, with a view to being more specific closer to it. God forbid… (View Post)

Hmmm. Frying pans and fires come to mind. (View Post)