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well, left of centre, not left. I think the best thing is to bounce from centre left to centre right without straying too far from the centre. Centrism is, I guess, about being practical. It just tries to make life better - or, perhaps, easier, or perhaps even, just stable and predictable -...

While we're talking about immigration, I do find this graph staggering, Relative levels of immigration have skyrocketed under this current government and particularly since Brexit - its no wonder that people who previously backed the Tory party over immigration are searching for an alternative...

Sometimes I really wonder what your f***ing problem is

Its exciting unknown foreign manager with a funky name time! Someone above said hes the German Steve Cooper - but with a fraction of the experience of Cooper - but everyone is way more excited about this guy! Logic and reason be damned! I guess the thing with unknowns is that there's always the...

It sounds like a nice idea having a social democratic centrist party that rules for ages. The problem with this is that all governments have a shelf life, and eventually the electorate kicks them out. If the gov is in the centre, by definition that means the next gov will be far to the right...

No one from Mebyon Kernow?

Yep, its true the smaller parties votes were heavily regionalised, Reform in the West and BQ in the East. In the UK, if the Tories did slip down to 16% with Reform taking 18% it would result in a mega- tsunami for Labour with 500+ seats. Playing games for a moment, in that scenario 100 MPs...

Under this poll, the Tories would slip to third, with the Lib Dems becoming the official opposition. Farage would narrowly take Clacton, and any further bleeding would quickly destroy the parliamentary Tory Party entirely. They are down to 47 seats under this scenario, from 120 under Yougov's...

Looking at the latest YouGov poll and others, you do wonder how bad it can get. Canada's 1993 election is starting to loom large as a comparison - the governing and deeply unpopular Progressive Conservatives went into the election with 156 seats out of 294, and ended up winning just 2 seats...

Iain Duncan-Smith may have been handed a lifeline in his Chingford and Woodford Green seat, number 10 on Labour's target list, where the previous Labour candidate Faiza Shaheen, who recieved 22,000 votes in 2019, was deselected and replaced. Shaheen has decided to run as an Independent, are we...

From an environmental perspective depopulation is a good thing. There are too many people in this world.

If this is the state the Tories have got the NHS into then by christ we need a change

yeah, as I thought, it was staged. Not staged by Farage, but staged nevertheless. Wasn't a political protest

There's probably other candidates standing in that constituency

That looked so staged - the person throwing it - I can't believe for a minute they are the kind of person who feels that strongly they want to milkshake someone. On her own, just waiting calmly, no obvious emotion, then walks up and throws it, then walks away calmly. If that wasn't someone paid...

Could be. For many people on the left of centre, either Libdems or labour are acceptable alternatives to the Tories. But on the right, Reform is being positioned as an anti-Tory vote, they won't coalesce around a candidate best placed to defeat the centre-left candidate. But I do believe that...

The tax is fine and makes sense. The schools will absorb most of it, they make a lot already. Maybe a few less sports scholarships, maybe cut down on numbers of staff, but they will absorb most of the cost and the vast majority of parents can afford to pay regardless. They get huge amounts in...

Its an interesting one. Farage will get attention and headlines and in the short term it seems like a good thing for Reform.... but is it really? Farage is known as a single-issue guy who has fronted a number of different parties that are essentially there as a vehicle for his ambitions. He has...

Or Cornish. as a point of order :thumbsup: