Mid evening all :) "Electoral Reform" covers a multitude of sins and while GB News has been bleating on about the inequity of the current system since Friday afternoon, it's mainly abo… (View Post)

As I well remember from 1987, the immediate post election period can be used by opportunists to try to force defeated parties into ill thought-out change. The truth is no one but us political geeks w… (View Post)

At the moment, those who are pontificating from within the Conservative Party are doing so for personal advantage. I doubt they have even begun to think through what happened and why it happened and … (View Post)

It's been 72 hours. I know we've all been rushing to do detailed analysis but the politicians themselves need time to rest and reflect. (View Post)

To be fair, after 2001, being opposed to the Iraq War worked pretty well. The Conservatives under IDS were even more gung ho about intervention than Labour - not that it did them any good. (View Post)