Zac Goldsmith, for example, got a seat in Parliament and a Government promotion when he was crushingly rejected by the electorate last year. So not sure we're that well placed to call the US sys… (View Post)

"Almost" identical is quite important in a close race. One in two hundred voting for Perdue (half a percent) but not Loeffler could very easily mean he's elected and she loses. (View Post)

It's very hard to unpick, but actually you'd expect historically Perdue to do better than Loeffler as a "real" incumbent anyway. Appointed incumbents apparently don't get muc… (View Post)

It was already effectively over, to be fair. Like Jared O'Mara in the last Parliament, she's been staying on for the pay cheques. (View Post)

On topic, I think the article romanticises the standing of leading shadow cabinet members pre-1997 (and indeed pre-2010). There's a big aspect of hindsight here. At the time, they were pretty wi… (View Post)