The trouble is there wouldn’t be consensus on who to pick instead. Plus if you’re the person who gets the short straw in that scenario no way you can argue you are a candidate for PM. Finally no guar… (View Post)

She can defect to Reform any time she likes, they are welcome to her. (View Post)

Of course not but then I’ve long yearned for the resurgence of that mythical creature the independent minded backbencher. Sadly what we get is a parade of identikit nonentities who are manacled by th… (View Post)

Unfortunately none of the real lessons will be learned from this exercise. We will still have a revolving cast of public sector senior executives moving from job to job knowing of how to do any of th… (View Post)

Glad to see TSE is recovering from his encounter with the barber surgeon. Hopefully his recovery to full health will be swift, aided one imagines by a timely course of leeches. (View Post)