There's no plausible full set of facts or outcomes that's going to show it was a good idea to faff around for weeks, let the Madrid game and Cheltenham go ahead and make up weird lies about… (View Post)

["How I would like politicians to behave" shoulds follow] I'm not saying they should demagogue. They shouldn't say, "[Unproven medicine] somethingiphen is effective effective… (View Post)

This website is about betting on politics, and by extension what kind of things politicians should do *if they want to win elections*. That's normally the right way to read "politician X sh… (View Post)

This was the infuriating thing about the government's response (and even trying to criticize the government's response here at the time): By the time the British had to deal with it, we had… (View Post)

Your example answers your question. The press just turned but for the last few weeks Hunt was basically the entirety of the opposition to the government. (View Post)