There's nobody available who is plausibly going to do a better job, and any ambitious scamps looking to take over will want to wait until the Carney window- just enough time to fling out some pr… (View Post)

The anomaly was winning a humungous megamajority on 34% of the popular vote. Which was FPTP doing its job. (Governments losing a quarter to a third of their support mid-term is pretty normal. One of … (View Post)

Comes back to her version of "character equals destiny"; for top-rank politicians that equates to what causes them to fail. Things that (I think) are accepted about Kemi B; 1 She likes an a… (View Post)

For a reasonable time, yes. Their 2010 map was extensive, but a bit of a mess. Celtic seats going back to Jo Grimond and before, some university towns and lots of random places that happened to have … (View Post)

Lobbying group lobbying for favourable treatment from the government? Maggie knew to ignore that sort of thing, and she was right. (View Post)