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I’m always sceptical of someone claiming to crusade in the name ‘the truth’ or someone who claims to be solely impartial. Precisely. The referendum of 2016 agreed in principle that the UK should leave the referendum. This is legitimate and a valid outcome. However, the interpretation of what...

What would constitute as ‘wrecking havoc’, UKIP did that in 2015, and still only won one seat.

What would be this mysterious Brexit Party’s policy on defence, education, the NHS, the economy, the environment, housing, immigration and so on. Besides, UKIP is polling at 6% at the minute and new Brexit party splits that, or at best, finds another 6-7% elsewhere. They may influence the...

I love getting lectured on impartiality by someone who isn’t impartial themself. Everyone has their biases.

You’re completely sweeping that allegation under the carpet. Had I not known who your MP was, you would’ve continued to have presented him as a good MP pushed out by Corbyn and his policies which is simply not true. Labour have dropped the investigation because they cannot sanction him if found...

I know this, but that doesn’t change the fact that he’s alleged to sexually harassed a former colleague. The Labour Party has a duty to investigate that, whether or not he is a critic of Corbyn or not. Frankly, Woodcock has claimed an investigation would ‘rigged’ but there’s no evidence of that...

Hang on, John Woodcock was suspended from the Labour Party because he had allegations of sexual harassment made against him and he didn't want to cooperate with the internal Labour investigation! Corbyn didn't push him away, although Woodcock is not a fan, it's his alleged inappropriate...

They probably won't because they have some very, very marginal seats. They won one seat by 2 votes, another by 21, 60 and 75. About 14 seats that are very marginal and frankly, their record in the Scottish parliament isn't the greatest. That said, they're predicted to win back some seats they...

He'll probably be unseated in another election. His current situation can't exactly help him. How can their position be clearer? Honestly, I am curious. They set out the following process: assess the Govt deal alongside its criteria (Customs Union being key to that), if the govt failed to pass...

Is that a joke? SNP to get '70ish seats' when there are only 59 seats in Scotland... The Lib Dems won't get 25 seats either and UKIP/Brexit Party won't get 5-10 seats. We don't have proportional representation!

Is that John Woodcock by any chance for Barrow and Furness? I've worked a door in Barrow -- I went to Lancaster University so have lived in the North West. Brexiteer MPs from the Conservatives who weren't on the ministerial payroll (and therefore, have to vote with the Government because of...

In short, voters don't find the process of Euro Elections to be rewarding enough. Turnout is generally low for most votes, local elections, regional assembly elections (where relevant) and even most referendums. The Scottish Independence and EU referendums being the obvious exceptions to the...

Definition of a safe seat: 'a parliamentary seat that is likely to be retained with a large majority in an election'. In our system, you only have to get the most votes in a seat to win it, which is heavily skewed in the established parties favour. Like I mentioned earlier, UKIP got 12.6% of the...

It's easy to be right about something when you're quite vague. Article 50 would probably have to extend even had May's deal passed in Parliament because further legislation has to be passed through Parliament and there are so many days to do this before 29th March. Decent summary: Brexit: Are...

You really have a siege mentality, don’t you?

As things stand, we’ll be gone by then. Assuming Article 50 was extended and we stood candidates in the European Elections. I’d expect next to no-one to come out and vote. So a Brexit Party could do well in European elections, maybe the Lib Dem’s might get a few protest votes too. UKIP did win...

Could a Brexit party get 37%? In short, no. Our electoral system disproportionately favours Labour and Conservative and each party has at least 100 seats each that are safe seats. UKIP failed to get a single seat in an election where they got 15% of the popular vote.

Our problem isn’t just our strikers, we have about 3 strikers who are scoring 1 in 4. The strikers have 22 goals between them, which isn’t bad. We just don’t have any goals elsewhere in the team. Thomas is a fantastic player, but he’s another one who’s missed his fair share of chances, he should...

Where’s the obvious opportunity we’ll get promoted? We’re some way off 6th. A genuine question, have we actually been 6th at any point this season at the end of a match day? I don’t seem to recall. The optimist in me thinks we’re quite similar to Portsmouth last season, who won 20, lost 20. If...

Absolutely. What the party needs is someone quite close to Corbyn policy-wise, minus the baggage. Gove’s inaccurate diatribes couldn’t be levelled against an ex-veteran of our armed forces like Clive Lewis. He would be my personal preference to the leadership and I’m not overly keen on some of...