Two important caveats there, though. One is that a Labour win didn't look at all on the cards until 2022 or so. Planning a manifesto to lose with dignity is different to planning a project for g… (View Post)

Sam Freedman (yes I know) was good on that in his piece on the anti-VAT campaign; https://samf.substack.com/p/the-great-vat-panic The TLDR is that campaigns against government policy work best when y… (View Post)

Good heavens, I hate those "bad things X after disliked thing Y" headlines. Implies a causal relationship, often when there isn't one. (See the third paragraph, and then remember that … (View Post)

The more relevant question is whether it's a version of 1980. And it's still much too early to tell that. Reform, on the other hand, can't offer real fiscal discipline- not with the co… (View Post)

I'm hearing these strange echoes of a distant time, and Corbynistas saying "why don't you go away and join the Conservatives?" Or something like that, anyway. (View Post)