I disagree with 1. Competence is relative. There is plenty of policy competence in government. There is also incompetence: but things could get a whole lot more incompetent than they are now. A whole… (View Post)

Yes: magic money tree, magic geography warping machine, etc etc. If a Labour politician attempted a policy agenda with the same assortment of fantasy, which even new convert Tim Montgomerie admits “d… (View Post)

I don’t believe you’d have felt the same about Conservatives needing to channel Corbynism after 2017, when he did significantly better than Farage is now doing. Or indeed that Boris needed to address… (View Post)

That attitude - the one you’re deploying there, really gets my goat. Politicians of the right spend their every waking hour deriding anyone from the left, calling them traitors or enemies of the peop… (View Post)

They are certainly showing too much respect and trying too hard to triangulate, yet at the same time not really preparing for all-out political war. It reminds me of the Tory and Labour attitude to t… (View Post)