Looking at the Lib Dem target marginals, they're scattered all over the place - but the greatest proportion of them are in the South East, not the South West. That's partly because Conservative stren… (View Post)

Not really. Apart from change, delivery, public service and standards - the general themes about being different from the chaotic Tories - there expressly wasn't anything much on policy. It's mood mu… (View Post)

I think a plan for provincial government was actively considered after the War, but evidently it was dropped (whether this was considered too big an upheaval, or an affront to tradition and to vested… (View Post)

They were just throwing Swinney's own assertions back at him, which seems entirely legitimate as a line of attack. Going forward, the knowledge that David Cameron's referendum gambits have bequeathed… (View Post)

Which was very encouraging. I'm much of the view that, if the yellows can just sink deep roots into enough of their gains and build the kind of incumbency bonuses they used to enjoy pre-2010, they ne… (View Post)