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)

Even 18 months on, I don't know what to make of Sunak. I said at the time it seemed he had rarely known setbacks and defeats - in politics, you often have to fight a hopeless seat before you get… (View Post)

Just so I’m clear. You would agree any application irrespective of whether it contravened the guidelines on density and height laid out in the Local Plan of which any developer would be fully aware. … (View Post)