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)

We tend to forget that pre-1948, Right of Conquest was an entirely accepted term of international law, and ethnic cleansing was considered statesmanship. (View Post)