Averaging the latest polls from the eleven companies who've polled so far in this campaign, plus Lord Ashcroft, I get:- Labour 44.5%, Con 24.3%, Reform 11.2%, Lib Dem 9.2%. (View Post)

The number of unforced errors has been staggering. (View Post)

I don't know if the Reform vote exists, however. In actual elections, it has not come close to the sorts of votes that UKIP was achieving, despite similar poll ratings. (View Post)

The Lib Dems have no desire to be a party of the centre right. (View Post)

Yes, and of course, the dynastic/baronial conflicts of 1260-1485. The Civil War was very brutal too (I think the 17th century was perhaps the most brutal era in world history). (View Post)