It doesn't cost them £9k a year. History students subsidise Engineering students (for example). Regardless of one's view on tuition fees, this has always been the case to a large extent. So… (View Post)

62% of Liverpool voted Liberal (33%) or Tory (29%) in 1980. Indeed the two parties regularly polled above 50% combined in the 1980s. Liverpool voted 60% Tory in 1969. Lib Dems drew level with Labour … (View Post)

Liverpool was Liberal led for periods in the 1970s (and elected many Tories - indeed Tory dominated in the very early 70s), and many of its Labour leaders have been fairly moderate (e.g. John Hamilto… (View Post)

Do you think current polls are a good guide on this? I don't. It's just not how by-elections work, and hasn't been historically either. Were we looking at a General Election, of course… (View Post)

Funnily enough, unlike more than a few others, I don't go on PB to toe the party line. So let's have less "cat out of the bag" nonsense. I'm a Lib Dem, have campaigned in by-… (View Post)