It's the only message they can run with after 14 years. The alternative- fresh start, that bad stuff was nothing to do with us- is a card a new PM can play exactly once. Major got away with it in 199… (View Post)
They're stupid enough to think we're all as stupid as them. (That's probably unfair, though it is a neat slogan. The government seem to be falling into the clever-but-foolish category. Clever enough … (View Post)
Even the "if mortgage costs come down a bit" only works for those on variable rate mortgages. For the majority of people on fixed rates, the current dynamic is still the increase from about… (View Post)
I'd like a Street-ite Conservative Party. But it ain't going to have Andy as its leader. He's currently 60, ever so slightly younger than Starmer. So at the election after next, he'd be 65. That's ju… (View Post)
Oof. That graph of 1992/1997/2024 makes it pretty clear that it's more late Major than early Major. Except that in 1997, most pollsters weren't getting Shy Tory Adjustments right- hence the overshoot… (View Post)