The role has a kind of doom loop built in. Because there's not much about it, you get relatively nothing people running for it. Not easy to solve. Remains to be seen if the shire county mayors do any… (View Post)
Seems like quite a few 2019 Conservatives are; Because we ask people their 2019 General Election vote (relying on recall) we can get an idea of where each candidate is drawing voters from. As you can… (View Post)
There are very many things that people shouldn't do, but do anyway. The harder question is- when did the Conservatives last have a realistic choice to avoid the zugzwang they are now in? Clearly BoJo… (View Post)
Aren't PCCs gradually being folded into the Metro Mayor role anyway? The map won't be perfect, but it's probably the simplest way to let the role die. (View Post)
Sunakcher? Some attempt to portmanteau the glories of Maggie, or a cross between Sunak and the Childcatcher? Either works. But whilst the spin in May 1990 (Ken Baker?) was a work of genius, Maggie wa… (View Post)