I never said anything about either man's physical fitness. FWIW, I think there's a probability that whichever is elected won't see out his term. Trump is obese, stressed and with an awful diet; Biden… (View Post)

Politicians are invariably optimists. They may well believe that they can turn it around at some point later, as Labour eventually did, or as the Tories did in the early 2000s. Or that they want to a… (View Post)

No, I don't think the one is a larger version of the other. As I understand it, grift is a fraud of seeking financial donations and then pocketing the cash or spending it on personal benefit rather t… (View Post)

We need to differentiate between grifting, corruption, abuse of office, and use of office to write tax changes that are self-beneficial. Trump has done all of those but not every action that was one … (View Post)

On topic, I suspect he won't stand. Burnham is relatively popular whereas Galloway's attraction is more niche. Furthermore, while you can throw Galloway a protest vote against the main parties in a b… (View Post)