Another version of the same thing. I'm pretty sure that a significant cause of all this is that nobody knows who is actually responsible for stuff, and that the policing of the ends of responsib… (View Post)

And whoever becomes Chancellor is going to be very unpopular, even if they do a good job. Elevation and castration in one easy move. (View Post)

That assumes that Burnham has the faintest idea what he wants to do as PM, let alone how to do it. Shiny sixpence says that he doesn't. (View Post)

In that sense, a lot like John Major in the second half of his Premiership. If people don't want to be charmed, there's not a great deal to be done. It doesn't matter how rationally fa… (View Post)

True, though the ShadCab comparison is surely worse. It's going to take a while yet for the political forest to grow back after the fires of Brexit, Corbyn and Johnson. (View Post)