Have Liz and Kwazi lost it completely?

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

In fact I’m being seduced by the ‘Guido Fawkes’ conservative blog.

What’s a good left-wing blog to add balance?

[Ribenapigeon]

[Kawasaki Jimbo]

‘Wings Over Scotland’ can be interesting, an independence-supporting blog which doesn’t seem to like the SNP. I can’t tell if it counts as left or right though, which is probably a good thing. I have no links to Scotland beyond being in the UK.

[Val]

[Ribenapigeon]

[Easy-X]

A "good" politician would talk so much sense you wouldn't care what party they were from. I expect Tony Benn would count as Right-Wing these days
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[MCN]

[Val]

[Easy-X]

"I know you are but what am I?"
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[bhinso]

So it's Richi "I have friends in the aristocracy, Upper Class friends, Working Class friends..... well not Working Class friends hahahahahaaha"

Mind you, I don't expect to see Sir Kier or Sir Ed queueing up at the food bank soon.

Bitter experience shows it doesn't matter if you vote Tory, Labour, Lib Dem, SNP, whoever. When all boils down they've all got their snouts in the trough.

At least with Tories you know what you're going to get.

Next election I think I'll vote Tory, purely because Labour will get in by a landslide and at least I have justification to moan for the next five years.

[stinkwheel]

I think a policy of filling the cabinet with experienced statsemen and doing nothing outrageous, innovative or out of the ordinary is probably the correct thing here. Create stability and hope stability will follow. Act only after consideration, stick to your principals and move with consensus.

Changing government now, especially for an unstable and equally fractured Labour party with no clear idea about what they are going to do and no experience of government would be a very dangerous thing in such a period of geopolitical and fiscal instability. They only have ideas about what they want to happen, not about how they are going to achieve it.

Radical change is not what we need right now. Calming things down and working steadily towards long term goals is what is needed. The financial markets seem to agree.

Go down the Winchester and wait for it to blow over.
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[Ribenapigeon]

[bhinso]

I don't disagree, but I think that in practice ordinary people (Sunak take note) tend to vote based on the charisma of the leader. Boris was seen as a bumbling womanizer but ingratiated himself to the public. New Labour started in 1994 and prospered based on the popularity of Blair.

I used to think that if there was a leader who I could identify with (i.e. didn't own zillions in property, hedge funds, etc.) I'd vote for them.

My logic was ultimately flawed when I realised that leader was Corbyn.

[Ribenapigeon]

[Polarbear]

[stinkwheel]

Corbyn would have emptied the treasury within 12 months on pie in the sky renationalisation schemes then spent the next three years blaming the Tories while the pound tanked... And the trains still wouldn't run on time.
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I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[bhinso]

The IRA thing did it for me.

[Nobby the Bastard]

What? When John major's government started talking to them?
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