I tend to agree that this is a recoverable position for the Conservatives. Where I have a problem with your position is that you remove agency from Johnson - he is, for you, passive recipient of a &q… (View Post)

It's never been well defined, to say the least, but I certainly saw it as a nod to "left behind" communities - places with a pervasive sense of their best days being very much in the p… (View Post)

A problem Number 10 has now is that, given Allegra Stratton has gone, why shouldn't everyone yucking it up in the room with her also go? She wasn't the only person audibly laughing on the t… (View Post)

Yes. Although an important difference is that neither a Con/Lib nor Lab/Lib coalition was particularly feasible long term in Feb 1974. There was some courting of Thorpe, particularly by Heath to try … (View Post)

This is absolutely right. 2010 had a few elements - a dire need for a stable government in the context of failing bond auctions and economic meltdown, electoral maths that meant no stable coalition w… (View Post)