Afternoon all :) Six weeks on and I'm still struggling to believe there are 72 Liberal Democrat MPs. I was an activist in the 80s and 90s and I thought winning 46 in 1997 was a huge achievement. Let'… (View Post)

There's almost a Marxist twinge to all of this - "elite class" ? It's a popular meme among some it would seem - blame everything on the "metropolitan liberal elite", as distinct f… (View Post)

FPT from @Stuartinromford: The breakdown of the economically inactive: Roughly: 2.7 million students 1.7 million looking after family/home 0.2 million temporary sick 2.8 million long term sick 0.03 m… (View Post)

Indeed - LBJ was going to run in 1968 until he withdrew. He could quite legally have run and won and served a full four year term meaning he'd have been POTUS from November 1963 to January 1973. (View Post)

You'll be fine until they outlaw hyperbole. (View Post)