As I keep saying, the reluctance of the Lib Dems to do anything is understandable but weird, and might come back to bite them. As the by-elections this week showed, they aren't the anti-Tory ant… (View Post)

I agree. There is no mechanism by which he can be ejected, and no self-awareness by which he will resign. (View Post)

That's a good point: that you can achieve a lot with less fuss as a Minister than you can as PM, and the PM has little power and more grief. I must point out that is particularly true at the mom… (View Post)

...hence the modifier "-adjacent". We keep forgetting that it's extraordinary that a *Labour* Home Secretary is proposing voluntary repatriation as a policy, a policy that I thought di… (View Post)

Referendums do not create a settlement, as we spent 2016-2019 proving. If she really wants to do this anti libertarian thing, put it in the manifesto and defend it in the runup to the GE. Then if she… (View Post)