Actually two if you include the Night Riviera from Paddington to Penzance and vice versa. (View Post)

The Alliance had two problems - internal disunity which came to a head at Eastbourne and the truth the electorate always saw them through the prism of the two main parties. Were they soft Tories or c… (View Post)

Afternoon all from Waitangi Day in Aotearoa :) Plenty of controversy on Wednesday as some senior political leaders turned up to address the assembled Māori (not Prime Minister Christopher Luxon who c… (View Post)

Not sure I agree with much of this - I think most people vote more negatively than just for cakeism as you put it. Yes, the parties could take cakeism off the agenda and that requires parties to be s… (View Post)

Evening all from MMP land. :) I’ve been an advocate for PR for local elections for decades and it’s an idea, rather like Land Value Taxation, whose time has surely come. I’m more ambivalent about PR … (View Post)