It's still nonsense to suggest that's *why* he was elected. He was elected because he was the only vaguely plausible candidate in a field where his rival was a deranged racist aged about 12… (View Post)

Sion Simon is an idiot. He thought Labour would win an election under Brown, that foot and mouth wasn't a crisis, and that he could write funny sketches. In all of these he was tragically misgui… (View Post)

It's also an implausible plan. Trump does whatever his backers tell him and he is as dumb as they come. (View Post)

I'd say personally he's more akin to Brezhnev. A senile old grifter stoked to the eyeballs on drugs with delusions of his own vast omnicompetence and personal popularity. (View Post)

Apparently he was like Sir Keir in that he liked a bland Currie. (View Post)