In electoral terms it certainly has resembled Southern Essex rather than Greater London. At the 1974 elections, Upminster was very much a tossup very marginal seat between Tory and Labour. Against th… (View Post)

I agree. Nixon also carried Illinois in 1968 - not really imaginable now! Obama also carried North Carolina in 2008. (View Post)

Whilst the LDs still like to boast about the policy, it was not the appropriate time to increase Personal Allowances on the significant scale that occurred. Such tax cuts should not have been given p… (View Post)

Hugh Dalton - Stafford Cripps - Hugh Gaitskell - James Callaghan - Roy Jenkins - Denis Healey - Gordon Brown - Alastair Darling. 8 in total. (View Post)

We live in difficult and very trying times. The burdens which now weigh on us are heavy and the light at the end of this tunnel is yet but flickering. But we do not carry gas masks around with us - n… (View Post)