The numbers were there for a Rainbow coalition in 2010. How long it might have lasted is another matter, but Labour + LDs + SNP +Plaid + Green + SDLP + Alliance would have been a small majority. I ha… (View Post)

It may be hindsight , but had the election been delayed to late Feb or early March it would have been much less of a Brexit election - indeed the issue would suddenly have become pretty minor in the … (View Post)

Corbyn lost his veto for a December election once the LDs and SNP agreed to support it.His acquiescence was no longer needed. (View Post)

Can you provide examples of an Opposition coming up with firm policy proposals almost four years in advance of an election? Thatcher was certainly not doing so in mid-1975 even though an election cou… (View Post)

A minor point of correction. In 1922 Churchill was actually defeated at Dundee as a Coalition Liberal. He stood the following year as Liberal candidate for Leicester - and lost again. (View Post)