The third problem is that Labour are still at the stage of opening closets and having skeletons left there by previous governments fall out on them. It's amazing how little object permanence the… (View Post)

One of the Yes, Prime Minister lines where the writers surely weren't joking was Jim Hacker's threshold for sacking a minister- when their messup could have been reasonably anticipated at t… (View Post)

The usual answer is to have enough noisy performative nationalist populism to distract the proles from the plutocratic gangsterism that's going on quietly on an industrial scale. Question is whe… (View Post)

After all, if he has won, it's the Will Of The People, and who are the Supreme Court to stand in their way? It's a massive step to not have elections- very few autocracies have gone that fa… (View Post)

Term limits or not isn't particularly fascist. Personally, I don't like them but I can see the legitimate case. What isn't on is changing the rules on the fly because it's conveni… (View Post)