The problem, though, is that the Blairite formula suddenly stopped working between 2005 and 2007, before he left. The party started shedding large numbers of votes during this time, and so although B… (View Post)

I have to say I think he would find it very hard to lead in that way without shedding further support in other directions, from what I can see. It needs to be consensus but with strong and focused le… (View Post)

Binface has won a moral victory in London. (View Post)

The Greens and LibDems. That's the problem with this zero-sum approach. In an earlier period of realignment, in the mid to late 'nineties, the Lib Dems were, broadly, a less metropolitan pa… (View Post)

Mandelson's deft political touch clearly deserted him a long time ago. " Lord Mandleson, a former MP for Hartlepool and one of the architects of New Labour, said the party had to embrace “B… (View Post)