While one does not seek the office, one has pledged oneself to the service of one's country. And if one's friends were to persuade one that that was the best way one could serve, one might reluctantl… (View Post)

Où est la masse de manœuvre? Aucune. The only reason Starmer got the Labour leadership, and then the Premiership, was the lack of someone else. That still basically applies. (View Post)

Up to a point. However, I'm pretty sure that the problem are deeper-rooted than that. It's been a problem going back at least as far as Lawson. Yes, the budget balanced pretty well in the late 80s, b… (View Post)

Quite possibly, yes. Which is part of our collective problem. (Really, we want someone who understands both high finance and normal people, and they seem to be inversely correlated.) (View Post)

Hardly sarcastic. It was one of the comfort blankets that BoJo apologists held onto during the trauma of 2022. "Boris may have been tricked into saying something untrue, he may have technically … (View Post)