And that's the heart of the problem. Anything can be made simple if you chop off the awkward bits. Once you engage with all of reality, it becomes complex. This is the kind of thing that conservative… (View Post)

Especially when the policy of all top-tier councils, whatever their colour, boils down to "Social care bills are killing us, and there's nothing we can do about them. Find any discretionary spen… (View Post)

That would mean flipping his map from the one he had in 2008 and 2012. Boris's doughnut from then is the place where Reform are doing best now. The harder question is- who has political plausibility … (View Post)

Reform are top of the heap, but it's not that impressive a heap by historical standards. John Major got 31% and a landslide defeat in 1997. About a third of the electorate are currently full-on Farag… (View Post)

They do, but if we have a government that prefers optics to reality, we end up in even worse trouble. And that's true, whatever the government's colour. (View Post)