Let's approximate and say that effective party leadership needs about ten years' Westminster apprenticeship. In the last decade both the big two gave suffered a landslide defeat, which must… (View Post)

But also, tube strikes are much less effective than they were. The Lizzie Line was busy this morning, but the capacity is so ginormous that it sucked up a fair bit of the East London-into-Central tra… (View Post)

There's a line that used to be said about a certain sort of teacher- "they haven't had 30 years' experience, they've had 1 years' experience 30 times". Corbyn'… (View Post)

MiliEd was only an MP for five years before becoming party leader? That's both insane and somethng that explains a lot. (Checks- he had about 2 years between becoming an MP and joining the cabin… (View Post)

See also Starmer. Became an MP in May 2015, in the Shadow Cabinet by September 2015, party leader from April 2020. Neither of them either had the experience of fighting hopeless seats first (virtuall… (View Post)