Opinion polling is one thing, actual voting is quite another. The enormous pro-independence vote hasn't gone away and it has nowhere else to go in a Westminster election. After all, Starmer is every … (View Post)

No. Moreover, given the degree of financial trouble in which the SNP now finds itself, the prospect of the entire party folding and its politicians having to found a clone to replace it shouldn't be … (View Post)

OTOH, 'they may be a bunch of shits, but they're our shits' is a powerful motivator for many voters. Explains the DUP and Sinn Fein rather neatly. (View Post)

I never even had to bother with subterfuge, even when I was actually (slightly) underage. Must either have had a remarkable nose for dodgy boozers or (more likely) I just looked old and knackered bef… (View Post)

I've no idea as to the merits or otherwise of this particular development, but the Greens more broadly have obviously cottoned onto the fact, like the Lib Dems before them, that Nimbyism is good for … (View Post)