One difference with 1979 is that voters mostly quite liked Callaghan (it was the unions they were sick of). Not so much love for Sunak. (View Post)

This is the problem, a lot of Brexiteers don't even think of Brexit as a economic policy, they just close their eyes and imagine themselves stood on the white cliffs of Dover waving a union flag… (View Post)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/15/rishi-sunak-mickey-mouse-conservatives-election This Marina Hyde piece on the current "government" is really quite brilliant and says e… (View Post)

You said that Exeter's ugly postwar redevelopment was due to the Left, despite it being carried out by a Conservative council and blessed by the town's Tory MP, and with much of the effort … (View Post)

The Poles were quite literally Communists and hence presumably quite left wing, at least relative to Exeter City Council, which was run by the Conservative Party at the time. I think you have simply … (View Post)