I think trying to predict 2029 from the safety of mid 2025 is foolish in the extreme. There's a lot of water to pass under a lot of bridges before then. I vividly remember how the Alliance were going… (View Post)

Indeed and without wishing to pour petrol on a perfectly good fire, there's far more emphasis currently on asylum seekers than on the homeless. The "housing crisis" is, as I've always argue… (View Post)

Okay, it's a nice evening and I'll play. The uncomfortable truth is shoplifting didn't begin in July 2024 - filming people shoplifting is a thing given most people have a mobile phone. Let's turn the… (View Post)

I'm not a Conservative though I sense you were. What we came to call Thatcherism was the radical solution to the cul-de-sac of Butskellism and it may be we need to think in similarly radical terms if… (View Post)

I do agree it's about "the vision thing" and if I were a Conservative. Lib Dem or Green, I'd be thinking hard about how I envisage governing Britain in the 2030s and beyond. What does that … (View Post)