Afternoon all :) I'll try to offer a more nuanced view on @Leon's comment. We know (or those of use who have put up with him and his previous incarnations on here for 15 years) it's a combination of … (View Post)

I'm fairly ambivalent to all the furore about who is a "working person" and who isn't. I know I'm not any more but it's not the great political divide some of the more hysterical anti-Labou… (View Post)

Though again I doubt it's the full story. There's a lot of contrext missing to what happened immediately prior to the video. I do agree it seems odd for MIke Amesbury to have acted as he has but the … (View Post)

I didn't see much evidence John Major or Rishi Sunak enjoyed being Prime Minister in their last 12 months - I don't suppose it was much "fun" for James Callaghan either. That didn't mean th… (View Post)

I think "bounce back" is overstating it somewhat. The Conservatives bounced back after 1997 - indeed, in the local elections on the day of the GE, they made significant gains and in 1999 wo… (View Post)