In retrospect, Hague faced an impossible task trying to dent the Labour majority in 2001 yet in some areas the Conservatives actually went further back from 1997 which had seemed the nadir. Arguably,… (View Post)

You oversell yourself, sir. It was about as subtle as one of @TSE's thread headers. (View Post)

Morning all :) I'm not terribly impressed by Luke Tryl's political analysis in general and this effort is misleading. He makes big play of the Lab/Con split now but that's just polling… (View Post)

It could well be the 2029 UK General Election will be analogous to the 1973 Danish election (there have been others in Europe) where well-established parties have been swept aside by insurgents and e… (View Post)

Yes, even I can cheerfully concede it's been a remarkable turn of events. The cynic in me looks at this piece and sees the emphasis on oil supply: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy9g1l5jx90… (View Post)