The figures are so excruciatingly high that Parliament will probably never be able to bring itself to vote to start the work, and it will therefore burn to the ground. It's just a matter of time. (View Post)

https://twitter.com/gsoh31/status/1543584802246467585 As Jim Callaghan well understood in 1978-79, once the chickens start coming home to roost, the sky often gets hellish dark with them. I think the… (View Post)

Perhaps I'm overdoing it. Time will tell. It's simply that the numbers don't lie: taking into account propensity to vote, a third of the active electorate is over 65 and a full half is over 55. The b… (View Post)

It'd be best for the country to be rid of him as soon as possible, simply because of his transparent awfulness and the corrosive effect this is having on the entire structure of the state, but I'm no… (View Post)

An educated guess. They aren't going to slip below about 33% of the vote (John Major managed 31% in 1997, and the population has aged since then.) Labour isn't nearly as strong as it was in the 92-97… (View Post)