True liberals have spent centuries fighting and dying on the barricades so their brothers and sisters can have a world where they are free to live as they please in a society governed by reason and law, not arbitrary force

Epigram could never do anything this awful

Good read - would be very interested if the results for the parties change as their base of cllrs expands or contracts in May.

Agreed and imo still a challenging dynamic in the big cities more widely.

Quite. Most people, not unreasonably, fundamentally don’t get the size of the sums involved in public spending and that blind spot distorts every conversation - not to mention feeding the endless stories about how MPs or council bosses are paid too much.

It’s very noticeable already with the wealth tax crowding out discussion of alternative/better progressive tax reforms. A lot of left people I know have bought into his idea that any criticism is a reflexive defensive of the wealthy.

To state the obvious it’s bleak that his approach to politics seems to have been quite effective so far. Short of being a coalition partner some day, I don’t see how the Greens will ever be in a position of responsibility where they’ll have to face up the promises they made.

In the long run we’re all Lib Dems.

I used to run past that site most days, it’s mad to me that anyone could object to the change given how sad the whole place looks now.

They really think 2015-2019 was an interregnum in which no-one in particular held any power and the only meaningful political event was the referendum.

I genuinely don’t understand why anyone would want this or why they think it’s so difficult to write meaningful replies on your own.

Speaking for myself, I’d take out the ‘slightly’

The soft left’s lack of organisational capacity or frankly a backbone in general has been disastrous for Labour

I think the deeply rotten internal culture of Labour is an underrated factor that drives so many of its dynamics and anyone who’s in a position to understand *how* rotten thinks it’s normal

I think a lot of people - myself included - severely overestimated the old right’s instinct for self-preservation. I didn’t expect them to make smart political choices out of the goodness of their hearts, but I really thought electoralism might get them there.

Wanting high growth and low immigration without seeing any tension between those goals is the epitome of the elite centre right’s decline