The trouble is that what the public wants (and votes for) is lowish tax and highish spending. You can make high tax'n'spend work, or low tax'n'spend. But we don't really want either of those. So we h… (View Post)
Wasn't IDS what happened after Hague lost? The loser's cycle in both 1997 and 2010 was "plausible but wrong junior Cabinet minister" followed by "unelectable fruitloop". (View Post)
Dylan Difford's Beautiful Chart agrees with you on numbers. This is the estimated flow from 2005 to 2024; https://bsky.app/profile/dylandifford.bsky.social/post/3l4djzymymy2i (View Post)