No, they're not that thick. But some are perhaps thick enough to believe that others are thick enough to believe it. Alternatively, it's a bedtime story they're telling themselves to justify their ac… (View Post)

Probably not. But that's the key point here. The electoral system is only of secondary importance in terms of what makes for in/stability, or the influence of extremes. What matters more is political… (View Post)

Technical note but Lib Dems were government-party MPs then, not opposition. Not that that matters in the sense of what Tory MPs did. (View Post)

Much as I favour PR, FPTP does keep most nutcases of left and right out of parliament. BxP was polling a steady low-double-digit share under Johnson, before the election. The dynamics of FPTP (includ… (View Post)

It's not just Europe now. They're a party-within-a-party and rejoicing in their pseudo-structures as such. Star Chambers and so on. But the structural problem is the same. Well, almost: May had equal… (View Post)