Its not simply not being the commuter belt for London which has always been true, what Help To Buy has done (and every Red Wall PBer from any Party says the same thing) has put a rocket under constru… (View Post)

The Covid deficit will need removing too, but thankfully its not structural like Brown's was. Brown's deficit saw debt to GDP rising every year from 2001 onwards before the recession hit. O… (View Post)

To be fair to Brown today's deficit is a Covid deficit and not Brown's deficit. Going back to the earlier discussion Brown's deficit had been fixed by Osborne to the point that debt to… (View Post)

Not really true. Take Blyth Valley as an example. It went from 16.6% Tory (third place) in 2010 to 42.7% Tory (winner) in 2019. So the Tories in the decade gained 26.1% vote share. However only 5.8% … (View Post)

Pro tip HYUFD: If you want to win next time try and think what you can do to win over voters from the LDs. Trying to attract 47% of Tory voters to vote for you and telling everyone else not to vote f… (View Post)