"Besides," said the turkey, "I don't think my reputation can survive being pardoned by Trump." (View Post)

Yes, that's getting close to the heart of the matter, which might be why no politicians are satisfying whatever it is we are demanding. Because we don't really know what we want, except in negatives … (View Post)

Convention would be needing to hold her seat in a GE to wipe the slate clean. (Which is quite a good calibration- a significant penalty for an ambitious politician, but not entirely fatal.) But she c… (View Post)

Fair enough. Then we have the wider problem, that anyone with the self-awareness to succeed at the top in politics will be self-aware enough to not touch the job with a bargepole. (View Post)

Someone (I think Major commenting on a Portillo rumour) once said that it showed the benefits of telecom privatisation. When Himself first became a local councillor in 1979, he had to haggle quite ha… (View Post)