Second half is fair enough. First bit... not so sure. IDS was fanservice for the Conservatives after the trauma of making almost no progress in 2001, nothing more. Starmer's job in 2020 was simi… (View Post)

They'll run very smoothly. The smoothest elections in the history of America. Russian elections run very smoothly, too. (View Post)

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)