1. Who benefits from a quick kill, whilst his rivals are unavailable or have a cloud hanging over them? 2. Whose PPS has resigned? 3. Who has experience of the effective backstabbing to get office wo… (View Post)

Not really. Mayors don't have to raise their own funds, they don't really have to manage tradeoffs. That's pretty fundamental to government, and one of the reasons Andy B is popular is… (View Post)

Presumably that's the point of "a timetable"- i.e. Starmer needs to hang around as a lame duck for as long as it takes for my fave to become available. There were some Italian Job refe… (View Post)

Meanwhile, does this former councillor count double? A newly-elected councillor has resigned from his post just days after being elected to Essex County Council and Rochford District Council. Stuart … (View Post)

Besides, there's the stress of dealing with shouty, clueless, emotionally incontinent children all day... ... or he can stick to working in a school. (View Post)