30%+ is certainly possible in the absence of any other credible protest vehicle. Assuming a big squeeze on Tory, Lib Dem and BNP shares, next no nothing for the minor candidates and an effective camp… (View Post)

A good piece by Henry, and there's not much I can add. I would refine the comment though that North Tyneside is "of the Conservative Party’s remaining northern defences". It is, but si… (View Post)

Why should the Commons have primacy? At the moment, it does because it has democratic legitimacy and the Lords doesn't. Fair enough. Were the Lords / Senate to be popularly elected, that changes… (View Post)

That rather over-eggs the pudding. It was a few select buildings that were torched, including the White House (note on urban myth here - the White House is *not* so called because of the whitewash ap… (View Post)

Elections aren't just referenda on what has happened during the previous five years but relative choices on who they think is best placed to handle the next five. The evidence is that the econom… (View Post)