I do have some sympathy with your evident blindspot on what you call the 'gamble' of the extended interval. Doctors are intensively and rightly trained to give the best treatment or protection to the… (View Post)

Boris is proving as bad a PM as I and many others predicted over a year ago. The only surprise is that voters have been so tolerant of his manifest unsuitability to hold high office. The trend downhi… (View Post)

He has been massively more loyal to the party than the current PM or Leader of the House, and it seems that his one and only red line - not crashing out in chaos - was shared after all by Boris, once… (View Post)

You might be right. One thing he has done right, or been lucky with, is to get his betrayal in early enough, without there being enough time for the normal general disillusionment to sap his support. (View Post)

FPT, but actually more relevant to this thread: Jess Phillips is really rather impressive. See the quote at 13:34: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2019/sep/26/boris-johnsons-brexit-rhetoric… (View Post)