OK, we're in a bit of the graph where it's hard to know how votes convert into seats. The most relevant data points are: Lab 41% Con 32% LD 18% gave Lab 412 seats Con 166 seats LD 52 seats in 2001 La… (View Post)
How far back does the "we've just lost an election, so we are going to go mad with self-indulgence for a bit" tradition go? We saw it a bit with Labour in 2010, before they went all-in in 2… (View Post)
The Liberal victory of 1906 was variously described at the time as an “avalanche”, a “wave”, a “landslide”, and a “deluge” – although George Whiteley, the Liberal Chief Whip, drew on the description … (View Post)
That assumes that Sunak has much input into the campaign strategy at this stage. If such a thing exists, rather than a frantic flinging of dung around in the hope that something, anything, sticks unt… (View Post)
It also moved the tax into the future. Instead of the cost coming up as students study, it becomes liable ten to twenty years later. And that, see also pay as we go pensions, has been a sin of the Br… (View Post)