Or, perhaps more likely, churn in and out of "won't vote/won't say". Consequence of rounding everything to the nearest whole number. (View Post)

Poor shivering pensioners is one of those bits of our collective mental map of the country that isn't particularly true any more, but is really hard to shift. There are others- for example, lany… (View Post)

The analogy with May is probably right. In normal times, neither of them would have been called on to be PM, but they were the least bad options at the time. Both had a better grasp of the shittiness… (View Post)

It's potentially another "use Elgar for radical reform, Stravinsky for no change" things. The more you intend to run a ruthless political operation, the more you have to talk about ope… (View Post)

But also... Becoming unpopular is what has always happened to Prime Ministers. Becoming very unpopular very quickly is what tends to happen to Prime Ministers these days. Partly because it's a d… (View Post)