I don't think he meant to win, did he? I thought that was another of those unfortunate surprises, the LDs being easier bedfellows for him than the 4m voters he didn't like at all. (View Post)

Neither expulsion nor extinction were the right (general) action. Party coalitions are maintained by the moderate use of stick and carrot, and Cameron was in the unique position of having a working m… (View Post)

Are YouGov prepared for the consequences? (View Post)

Now this is an interesting point. I would suggest that Cameron killed the party and the post-2016 Brexiteers buried its twitching corpse. (View Post)

As a broadly Europhile ex-Tory, I have to agree with @Alanbrooke - it was Cameron who destroyed the Tories by failing to understand what it was that the eurosceptics represented, and to whom. (View Post)