Presumably the 16% contain quite a few suffering from a sunk-cost dilemma. Having trusted him on Brexit and plenty else, to admit he was (and is) wrong now would mean having to admit they were duped … (View Post)

Johnson was so consistent about Brexit he didn't know which side he would back at the beginning of 2016. He also shafted the N Ireland Unionists as soon as they became inconvenient. He has few set po… (View Post)

Johnson has an entire adulthood (at least) of proving himself generally untrustworthy, from his journalism to his private life to his attitude to parliament to his (and his staff) abiding by his own … (View Post)

The MPs voted for someone they thought (rightly, as it turned out) could win an election. They were prepared to accept a fraud and a cad as the price necessary to save their party and keep Corbyn out… (View Post)

Although Churchill was a Conservative before he became a Liberal - ref his comment on re-ratting. (View Post)