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Titanic is fine. He's just a Tory, and a particularly partisan one at that. He's just probably protecting his 'interests', ie his gargantuan wealth. On here with his postings, he's just being strategic.

Titanic is fine. He's just a Tory, and a particularly partisan one at that. He's just probably protecting his 'interests', ie his gargantuan wealth. On here with his postings, he's just being strategic.

I must read your stuff more often, because you've got such a firm grasp of reality.

Paul Mason is now employed by Labour Has anyone actually heard from Corbyn since the referendum? Seems he thinks that silence is the best way to persuade the electorate of policies, how to view the world, respond to events, etc. It's also an interesting game to speculate just how he will cease...

There is another scenario, and that's senior Lib Dems c2010 had gone cold on the tuition fee pledge due to the changed circumstances post-2008. Just about all of them have said this. I've only come into this discussion late, but the Lib Dems did have an influence on the Tories, and that was...

3rd, shirley, after US and China. I appreciate that India is on the march, but it'll take a good few years for it to break into the top three.

You and I will have to agree to agree on this one. Which is unusual. The good news for you is that in all likelihood Labour's internal voters will utterly ignore these cues from the wider public, and re-elect Corbyn. And the Tories will be re-elected in 2020 irrespective of the Brexit fallout...

And I said that as an anti-Blairite.

Why special conditions in this post-Brexit scenario? It's almost as if you're conceding that it constitutes a major error.

Maybe because they won the previous THREE?

We're getting closer.

Nah. That's Sid James.

Spot on. Just to mention two things: -- the notion of class, and particularly there being just two classes (working and middle), no longer holds. It bore a close resemblance to society when the majority of workers were industrial workers, yet according to the ILO, only about one-fifth of the...

This from one of our best social and political commentators, in the spirit of Priestley and Orwell: There’s a fetid cloud of acrimony over Labour – it’s the reek of death John Harris Has there ever been a stranger political occasion than Tuesday night’s marathon meeting of Labour’s national...

The one thing it isn't is logical, which involves slow, careful steps, rather than giant, dubiously connected leaps. But it does raise the question of whether such major issues can be logically combined, which I suspect it can't.

He did. Extraordinary. But it's not as if it's something new.

We really need to get away from such options. There are others. Your description of 1 isn't even that accurate of the mixed economy that operated between 1945 and the 70s. And the economy has moved on, and is far less productivist (re means of production). One of the few decent things that...

Read Point 3 of the above, especially the above. It's very clear.

It is in Schedule 2. See Point 3. (Sorry too techno-incompetent to embed.)

Their rules state that it is "the duty" of the chairman of the 1922 Committee to find a replacement for any candidate that drops out of the contest between the MPs selecting their candidates, and those candidates being put up for election by party members.