Question is whether Starmer's premiership dies of the Mandelson scandal or with it. (View Post)

One other thing. The sledging Brixian59 got on their appearance here, including form some distinguished commentators here, was not PB at its best. (View Post)

Enoch Powell had something uncontroversial to say about that. Thinking about the small time, small town politicians I've seen up close and off duty, they all have a belief that they can beat the… (View Post)

The catch there is that making a hideous misjudgement isn't an instant sacking offence for a PM. If it were, we'd get through them at an even faster rate than we have in recent years. (View Post)

And that's one problem for Starmer. Chesterton's Fence thinking allows a lot of this processes that led to this mess to make some sense. But they have led to a nonsense outcome. Smoke, yes.… (View Post)