Callaghan was a disatrous party leader as evidenced by his failure to call an election in Autumn 1978 - when he had a fair chance of winning - and his decision to remain LOTO for 18 months after losi… (View Post)

I do not recall candles being needed during the Winter of Discontent - the miners, electricity power workers etc were not involved in the industrial chaos which then engulfed the country. Power cuts … (View Post)

That was surely the old system. Nowadays it is a matter of sufficient MPs sending letters to Graham Brady - as happened to Theresa May. (View Post)

June 1961 Macmillan's Tory Government led Gaitskell's Labour opposition. Labour won the 1964 election by 2%. I doubt that any of these precedents have much relevance at all in the the context of the … (View Post)

Indeed - which rather reinforces my point that normal party politics has largely absent. (View Post)