https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/07/09/liz-truss-will-cut-taxes-review-government-spending/ Reading between the lines of this puff piece for Truss by Simon Clarke (published 9.30pm tonight) … (View Post)

Why put the governance of the country on hold for 2 months in order just to indulge the whims of Conservative members, while denying anyone else a say? (View Post)

I pretty well agree with that. Imagine Brown taking over from the unpopular Blair in 2007, but in the midst of an extreme economic crisis that had already developed on his watch. Sunak's private fina… (View Post)

No, it was about being in a position to take out continuity Corbynism when the time came. What choice did he have? Those outspokenly denouncing Corbyn from the outside were never going to have been i… (View Post)

OT. The 2nd preferences of LD voters shown in the thread don't in my view amount to very much. They are representative of a specific situation of a year ago where: 1. The Conservatives were significa… (View Post)