The charitable answer is that the Conservatives have gone insane. The less charitable answer is that they are going for the terrible hypocrite vote; the sort of people who want maximum controls on Ot… (View Post)

The other possibility is a variant on the "grotesquely monumentally stupid" theory. The actual functioning of politics has depended, for all my life, on a cohort of bright young things, mos… (View Post)

It would be, if they hadn't flogged off the deckchairs in 2023. (View Post)

Kemi has got plenty of incompetence to cover things; In recent weeks, stung by criticism that she was aloof from her MPs, Badenoch has begun inviting in small groups for lunch. Well, platters of shop… (View Post)

Two problems. First, the lightbulb party has to want to change, and it doesn't. Not towards centrism, anyway. Second, there needs to be a big One Nationer, and I'm not convinced there is. (View Post)