david_herdson

Going back to my earlier parallel, 1918 and 1922 were both pretty fragile landslide majorities (1922 was more 'solid majority' than outright landslide but the moderate sized overall majority was incr… (View Post)

I agree. And the earlier examples were all instances where the opposition *was* honest about making unpopular individual decisions but still got elected anyway because they'd persuaded the country no… (View Post)

The excessive focus on Palestine compared with other wars is a bugbear of mine too. Still, human rights there matter as much as anywhere. Yes, the Russians are doing and have done dreadful things in … (View Post)

The legacy media are being given far too much credit / blame for the rise of Reform. It really isn't to do with how many times Farage has been on Question Time (which isn't all that many in fact, per… (View Post)

And before that period of stability: 1964, 1970, 1974, 1979. Trends change too. But more importantly, the whole party structure is in flux at the moment. We would be better looking to 1918-31 for pre… (View Post)