The Mayoral and PCC elections gave 41% Labour, 32% Conservative. I think such a result was achievable for the Conservatives, had they not run a campaign which insults the voters. (View Post)

That poll from Northern Ireland is quite interesting. You have to go back a long way to find Alliance/SDLP/UUP polling as high as 45% between them, or Sinn Fein/DUP/TUV polling under 50%. (View Post)

Orderic Vitalis, who was generally an admirer of William (although he denounced the Harrying of the North), certainly loathed Robert Le Bellend. Being a “Batard” at least meant you were highborn. Low… (View Post)

Much depends whether polls showing the Conservatives on 25% or so are correct, or those showing them under 20%. (View Post)

Much worse. I guess Labour in 1931 might have been more hopeless. The problem is the Conservatives have nothing to fight on. They’ve had three terrible Prime Ministers, since 2019. Their administrati… (View Post)