The Conservatives got obliterated, and are now dying half-dead in a ditch, because they ignored and abused people who could be persuaded to vote for them (aspirational middle classes) for voters who … (View Post)

In France, this is the space that Macron stepped into and couldn't be budged from. I don't know how you do the same in the UK system. (View Post)

Don't forget the extended pre-adulthood and retirement. (View Post)

Tentative hypothesis: Part of Starmer's problem is that, as well as having poor political antennae, he's old. Childhood in the 60s and 70s, a student and starting his career in the 80s. Tha… (View Post)

Mr and Mrs Voter are pissed off with governments almost everywhere. Some of that is that governments everywhere are failing politically and morally, but some of it is because we think we're enti… (View Post)