It's inevitable if you have five parties polling meaningful numbers, instead of two-and-a-bit. Partly that's because electronics make it easier to breathe life into Potemkin Parties with a … (View Post)

Though mostly driven by RefCon voters, who are even less likely to have a say in the matter than the rest of us. (Oh, and first?) (View Post)

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)