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)

It does make him look a bit more thuggish, slightly. The Boris of the football shirt who knocked over a younger player on the pitch. Still, he's probably just happy not to look like total chaos … (View Post)