Reform's problem in a nutshell. The things that energise the party (boats, taxes, woke) mostly don't map onto the duties of local councils. And those councils have minimal political discret… (View Post)

See also the FDP in Germany. There's a gap in the market, but probably not a market in the gap for a free-standing party. What has changed is that socially and economically liberal types used to… (View Post)

Going back to the header, part of the problem was the things that were cut in 2010. A lot of the austerity was done through capital spending, maintenance, local councils and squeezing public sector p… (View Post)

Counterpoint: Had Donald or Liz been freeer to do what they wanted, that would have been worse. (View Post)

Appropriately enough for Tom Lehrer's birthday; We will all go together when we go. All suffused with an incandescent glow. No one will have the endurance To collect on his insurance, Lloyd'… (View Post)