@HYUFD can join me, @david_herdson, @MaxPB, and @Philip_Thompson in a new party. Might require a bit of argy-bargy to get a new platform agreed, mind. (View Post)

If the CDU had chosen a less voter-repellent leader, they'd have walked this, wouldn't they? (View Post)

The big difference is that, in the Seventies and before, the general view was that choir boys or schoolboys being touched up wasn't as harmful to the children as we now regard it, and nor was gi… (View Post)

Betfair currently has CDU/CSU Most seats at 11.0 (although the price is volatile). Given that the latest projection has the SPD just two seats ahead, that seems rather generous... (View Post)

It doesn't require the eye-watering up-front investment in a single site, or a tiny handful of sites, though. It can be done in a much more incremental way, and the technology is pretty well est… (View Post)