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You do know that in the UK, the legislation Parliament passes becomes law? Given your high-handedness and condescension, that would be hilarious!

The German railway system is publicly owned, and would constitute a monopoly by EU law. The EU aren’t going to turn around to Germany and demand they break up their publicly owned industry. The same applies to France. Britain still owns most of the railway system, the infrastructure belongs to...

I’ve answered that. Yes, Parliament could pass an Act of Parliament tomorrow if there was a majority. The EU couldn’t stop Hungary from passing legislation that breached it’s charter of human rights. It’s opened ‘legal proceedings’, but to answer your question... the UK doesn’t need EU consent...

You’ve misrepresented my fundamental point of Parliament having the power to nationalise an industry or company. It’s not a party political point at all. Does the UK Parliament have the power to enact these policies? Yes. Does the EU possess a mechanism to block an Act of Parliament? No.

Look at the Labour manifesto of 2017, that will provide the information you seek. Labour attempted to cost its policies, and the Tories spent more time producing documents ‘debunking’ these costing than costing their own manifesto. Managed to find £10bn for DUP support though. Instead of trying...

No, I’ve explained how Parliament works constitutionally and you’ve failed to make any kind of rebuttal. You’ve made the claim that Parliament can’t do ‘x, y and z’ without EU approval and that is factually wrong. Provide ONE example (or more of you’re up to it) where the EU has blocked an Act...

All the best to you and your family, and I hope the old dear makes a full recovery! I’ve never questioned the bias of YouGov, so I’ll assume that’s not directed at me. When it came to general polling, YouGov was the only outlier which polled a decisive lead for the Tories — most of the others...

You asked if Parliament could do that, I answered. The Human Rights Act can be repealed by Parliament if there was a majority. In fact, that’s what the Government plans to do post-Brexit and pass our own British Bill of Rights. You’ve unknowingly just proven my point. You talk of red herrings...

Abolished in 1993.

What part of Parliament can pass any legislation it wants are you not getting? In short, yes. Would there be implications for doing that? Probably. It’s a nonsense argument because it’s not being proposed by anyone serious in any major party.

Yes, because the EU cannot stop Parliament from passing legislation. The EU says nothing about the NHS and the UK's nationalised healthcare. Linking this point to your We've voted to leave the EU, so why are you concerned about how people view nationalisation and EU membership? As things...

Typical juvenile mudslinging -- I'll take it as a compliment. Firstly, the example I gave contained banks, shipyards as well as railways. Legally, Parliament can pass legislation to nationalise anything and the EU cannot physically stop that. The UK doesn't send an application to the EU to...

That’s not really a relevant point but I’ll indulge you anyway. France and Germany (plus, most EU members) have nationalised railways, so being in the EU doesn’t affect the countries ability to nationalise industries. It didn’t stop Britain nationalising certain banks, and didn’t stop France...

I’m not without biases, no one is completely free from that. Public opinion regularly polls in favour of higher taxation on the highest earners and is generally in favour of nationalising the railways (even among Tory voters) and utilities. Objectively, they are popular policies among part of...

That’s a moot point because Cameron wasn’t running against Corbyn and May is still PM and any other GE this year will probably be May v Corbyn. If we’re objective here, the Labour Party went into the 2017 GE with some popular policies. May would probably frame another GE around the single issue...

We need to bring him back slowly, so we’ll have to get at least 2 wingers in the summer. For me, we almost have to ‘shelve’ him in the sense that we should plan our squad on the assumption he won’t come back. If he comes back, he can play a role as a sub, and work his way from there! He looked...

It’s a catch-22, they probably would’ve been punished electorally had they not back devolution. The result has definitely dented Labour’s chances — to lose 40 seats in single GE was devastating.

Yvette Cooper’s leadership bid in 2015 was terrible. Her big idea for Britain was for a ‘more feminist society’ whilst arguing Corbyn presented ‘old solutions to old problems’. With quite literally zero concrete policy ideas. It was a farce and she represents the Blairite/Brownite Old Guard...

Frankly, the Labour Party is unlikely to be able to form a majority Government until it regains most of the seats it lost in Scotland. The party consistently had 40+ seats in Scotland before 2015 to 7 seats in 2017. That fact doesn’t change whoever is leader of the Labour Party from whichever...

A Brexiteer Tory PM would probably split their party even more. But, then again, the party looks like it will split pretty badly if May gets lured into remaining in the CU. That wouldn’t bother me much though. Both Labour and Conservative are treading on thin ice and a wrong move from either...