I stand corrected, but my impression was that most people who got elected as indepndents in rural Scottish authorities tended in reality to be Lib Dems or SNP, or genuinely unaligned. (View Post)

He is quite unhinged. What turned a fairly successful actor, married to a lovely wife, into a loon? (View Post)

When I first got interested in politics, independents were very much a dying breed, along with Residents/Ratepayers. But, now, they seem to be on the up (a development I consider positive, in local e… (View Post)

London gives a perfect dry run of how Conservatives v Reform would likely pan out in the general election. Reform contested every available seat, against the Conservatives, and they did not make much… (View Post)

It’s a problem in the long run. A Labour government won’t diverge very much from US foreign policy, will pursue Western interests, won’t be red in tooth and claw, will do authoritarian things like de… (View Post)