See also Gove, Cummings, even Johnson to a degree. It's Orwell's theory of the Middle co-opting the Low to depose the High, then dumping them. See also the contempt when someone from an even less cha… (View Post)

A disorganised rabble. A selection of Official Reform, Independent Reform, True Reform, Really True Reform, Reformer Than Thou... You get the idea. After all, once an MP is elected, their party label… (View Post)

I'm sure he wants those bits, what red-blooded Briton wouldn't? But, having spent decades winding people up about how badly other politicians run things, does he really think he can do better? Really… (View Post)

Though that didn't do William Hague much good. The billion dollar question is... When push comes to shove, does Nigel actually want to be Prime Minister? As opposed to pushing someone else to run the… (View Post)

There's also a variant of the "should the guilty go free or the innocent be imprisoned" argument. The political argument for the two child limit is that it discourages irresponsible breeder… (View Post)