On the other hand, Canada hasn't really been forced to do stuff it really doesn't want to do by the USA. True power, as the creepy bit in 1984 points out, is when you make the other party s… (View Post)

In which case, a shiny sixpence says that the Canadian provinces wouldn't get statehood. (View Post)

That's a wider problem with all FON polls. Whether they are righter or wronger than more conventional methods remains to be seen. But the bigger point is that it's too easy to create the su… (View Post)

On the assisted dying bill: Wasn't the issue not so much the Lords as a whole (whose attitude seems to be "We don't especially like it but we'll have to go along with it") as… (View Post)

More of a problem in some bits of the political spectrum than others. If you are in a party whose MO is "saying the unsayable", sometimes you are going to have your people saying things tha… (View Post)