Afternoon all :) What? Seriously? The MiC poll fieldwork is three weeks old and therefore is ancient history. The current situation is Reform around 30, Labour and Conservatives around 20 and LDs and… (View Post)

Morning all :) So we have anecdata three and a half years from a likely General Election to keep the old Conservative spirits up? I'll cheerfully acknowledge (and have done) Badenoch has had a d… (View Post)

How do you define "politically experienced"? He will have been an MP for just five years - Starmer and Cameron had been in Parliament for nearly a decade. Liz Truss had been an MP for 12 ye… (View Post)

Evening all :) Mrs Stodge and I travelled back from rural Derbyshire today - the trains into London not too busy but the queues waiting at the Eurostar terminal and for the trains to the Midlands and… (View Post)

Afternoon all :) Thinking philosophically for a moment, is it an Opposition's role to oppose? Sometimes you think it's like a Monty Python sketch where argument becomes contradiction - ther… (View Post)