It's not even necessarily irrational. FPTP encourages a "what's the best way of kicking the party I don't like?" approach. That isn't automatically wrong, but it's not always pretty. (View Post)
The only way to win at politics is to quit while you are ahead, and very few manage that. In Starmer's case, that might happen if he retires at 65. A term and a bit then leave to to muttered "he… (View Post)
It's both. 2016 happened in part because of an underlying unhappiness with the political class. But the nature of the 2016 vote and its fallout made that distrust worse. Self-reinforcing doom loop. (View Post)
Not entirely his fault- Sunak recorded the interview before he or his handlers had realised that a scandal would break out over this. In his head, it probably sounded like a sincere polite apology. M… (View Post)
The clip doesn't show the workings, but £4800 is £100 a month for four years. That's not that much on rates rising, or falling more slowly than otherwise. I'm not sure that's a good mathematical conv… (View Post)