There's always the drastic and now dated elocution lessons option, although you might come out sounding like the blessed Margaret. (View Post)

Yup ; and that's why the nasty Farage poster from the Balkans border was so potent. (View Post)

I think the Falklands War was a disaster for our politics in general. From preventing an SDP victory that would have put Britain on the road to more consensual, Continental-style government and precl… (View Post)

You're certainly right that the Tories' full-throated support of the Iraq debacle seems to have been almost entirely expunged from the public's memory - or at least that of the rightwi… (View Post)

Thatcher was in quite bad trouble from the Wets in Winter 1981-2, IIRC from pretty young politics-watching, and was somewhere around -10 at the beginning of the year. There was that slight improvemen… (View Post)