I don’t think there’s any inevitability in the decline of the “top 2” party vote, but I do think there is an inevitability that at some point the public are going to be driven towards a political dis… (View Post)

Badenoch’s figures won’t improve until the Tories earn the right to be heard. That’s their goal for 2025, whether they’ll meet it, hmm… (View Post)

Leaving content aside, first time she’s really put in a half decent performance IMHO. The Brexit freedoms thing could have been a clanger, but Starmer didn’t respond to it - she got a bit lucky there. (View Post)

Maybe. But the fact they didn’t campaign on that (indeed in certain circumstances suggesting the very opposite) is becoming a problem for them. (View Post)

I don’t think the country has particularly reconciled itself yet to the idea that there’s no such thing as a free lunch. In a lot of ways I blame the lack of critical interrogation of the massive gov… (View Post)