It's like the murder mystery trope where Everyone Did It. But my pet theory is that something like this has been incoming since the late 90s. The generation of young people who became Conservative in… (View Post)
As well as annoying people who were OK with the EU, actually doing Brexit meant annoying most people who supported it. There are exceptions, mostly those who like Brexit as an abstract concept, becau… (View Post)
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)