Are you sure you want Jeremy Thorpe style figure dogged by scandal? (View Post)

Correct. In the age before Twitter, mass private transport and with a population of roughly 50% of the size of today, a crowd of 10-12,000 is an incomparably more remarkable achievement than 300,000 … (View Post)

Mosley was definitely a capable demagogue, and organised large marches, and street fights, and had a criminal record. Although unless I've missed something, he was a lot more successful with wom… (View Post)

Oswald Mosley... (View Post)

FPT, but relevant here: It's very hard indeed to see Burnham as a threat. He's outside Parliament and the barriers to his return are actually pretty formidable. He would have to find a seat… (View Post)