It's probably impossible to accurately model how vote share turns into seats with this many parties, so buckets of salt, natch. But a couple of observations. First is that, despite everything, t… (View Post)

Though the timings of elections and budgetary processes means that Reform run councils have been running on the legacy plans of their predecessors. The interesting bit- what happens from April 2026- … (View Post)

Alternatively, why bother? It's the mirror image of the problem the Conservatives still haven't really answered after twenty years of Faragism. How should a party of government deal with a … (View Post)

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherl… (View Post)

Probably the truthful thing to say- the range of scores that allows the third(?)/fourth(?)/fifth(?) party to be actual Kingmakers, as opposed to reluctantly having to push someone you aren't tha… (View Post)