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Germany and Switzerland! I'd been watching Albion on and off since the early 90s when I met my wife, whose folks were from Pevensey, and big Albion fans. Would always go and see them when down from Oop north. Then we went to live/work in mainland Europe and visits became fewer. Finally retired...

Can't disagree with any of that. The brilliant Tim Shipman book about the campaign is a great eye opener. Cameron took the decision to hold the referendum after exhaustive surveys convinced him that Remain would win. He called the referendum to get rid of UKIP who won 4 million votes in 2015...

I don’t think that’s true at all. They are in such a terrible state that any improvement in polling figures would surely help unite them. Think of Corbyn in 2017. He was despised by most Labour MPs but suddenly, after the close-run election result, Labour became much more solid. As for Cameron...

I'm happy with coalitions. It forces parties and votes to take a more consensual approach to government which is how most of us live our lives. As adults, when faced with big decisions we tend to speak to different stakeholders and take a balanced decision. With FPTP we bounce between the two...

I think we broadly agree.

If 5% of the public support the BNP and 5% of the public support the Revolutionary Communist Party (or any other batshit-crazy party) then yes, they should each have 5% of the representatives in parliament. I have no interest in either party but I’m a democrat, and I'm afraid democracy sucks...

We don’t 'get' coalitions because FPTP makes coalitions pretty rare beasts. Under some form of PR however, we’d probably have a permanent coalition and would have no choice but to change with the times, and behave like most democracies. I struggle to see how PR will ever come about though, as...

Sorry, I didn’t totally understand that. For me, one of the most appealing, yet unpredictable, aspects of PR is that all political parties would be reshaped with several new small parties appearing who may well hold the balance of power in a coalition. At the moment you’d expect a roughly left...

I can't remember what was in the 2019 Tory manifesto TBH, apart from 'get Brexit done', and I'm really not minded to go and research it. I'm pretty sure they would say that COVID and Ukraine have totally changed the economic landscape and priorities. Obviously there are many flaws in our...

We have never, in our entire history, elected the holder of these titles. Which isn’t to say therefore it’s ok. But I’m constantly hearing that we didn’t elect the prime minister. We elect MPs. The leader of the party with most MPs becomes, by convention, prime minister. We didn’t elect Gordon...