Broad but thin support lead to a huge majority but not the depth to sustain ambition meeting reality. Starmer makes Sunak seems exciting. A leader and government with very little political sense. Lot… (View Post)

I used to quite like the Greens when they were all save the whales, worried about the ozone hole, and telling people to hug a tree. They seem to have been completely taken over by the sort of chumps … (View Post)

The line that No. 10 is getting loyal MPs to trot out this evening is "Starmer's kept us out of a war". That is correct, but it's independent of his appointment of Mandelson. Bein… (View Post)

He needs to finish this one ASAP so he can move on to Cuba. (View Post)

Starmer didn't know, No. 10 didn't know, no minister knew, but now it seems that the press knew ages ago. It does not add-up, it appears that it was an open secret that Mandelson was appoin… (View Post)