I enjoy the irony that, for 100 years, the maximum five year term of a UK Parliament was set down by the Septennial Act. (View Post)

Yeah, up until now I'd believed political honours were based purely on merit, and that knowing where the bodies were buried had nothing to do with it. This comes as a crushing blow to my innocen… (View Post)

A General Election vote is not at all the same as a poll on whether the PM should resign. In general, a reasonably high proportion of non-Tory voters will say no, the (Tory) PM should not resign (dit… (View Post)

On topic, I appreciate the point OGH makes about this being a by-election in the West Midlands. However, it is specifically in Birmingham, which isn't all that typical, politically or demographi… (View Post)

On topic, I think Marine Le Pen is very, very likely to make it to 500. It's extremely convenient for Emmanuel Macron if it's a very public struggle for her... but that she gets there in th… (View Post)