See also Corbyn 2017. Elections, especially in FPTP, are only partially about maximising your support. They are also about minimising your opposition. (View Post)

My impression was worse than then. The last few years haven't been kind to his body. For a long time, the scruffbag shtick was part of his appeal- it signalled a lack of pomposity, and that can be at… (View Post)

The modal voter, yes. The median voter is someone between the very left of the Conservatives and the right of the Lib Dems. Like always. (Doesn't mean that position is popular or correct, but it is w… (View Post)

Doesn't Labour have quite a lot of people (union members?) who are entitled to vote, but aren't necessarily that attached to the party? In terms of raw votes, 95 000 voted in the Kemi-Bob face-off. B… (View Post)

A lot of the appeal of populism, of whatever colour, is the promise of simple solutions. Sometimes out of naivety, sometimes out of cynicism. Either way, it tends to fall apart when forced to confron… (View Post)