There are two separate issues here. As MrEd says, it could play well with the intended and very long tried-and-tested, transatlantic dog-whistle narrative of "See ? Labour is against this becaus… (View Post)

Johnson/Cummings did not promote the idea because they love quangos such as the electoral commission. The cause is clearly political and not democratic-procedural, in line with all the precedents and… (View Post)

Much in the same way as it's only the "liberal elite" that worry out about due process, trial by jury, detention without trial, and all that sort of obsessive stuff. (View Post)

There are signs of it turning into the new "political correctness gone mad", just as political correctness went from something fairly academically specific at the turn of the '90s to a… (View Post)

It's a blatantly and unashamedly Repubican-inspired, Dominic-Cummings-era Trumpian fad to restrain democracy. Even though forms of it were earlier considered, rhetorically and theoretically , as… (View Post)