The last December election was in 1923 (parents ask your grandparents), when PM Stanley Baldwin ‘felt the need to receive a mandate from the people, which, if successful, would strengthen his grip on the Conservative Party leadership’. Then, as now, it was thought that any potential Labour-voting ditherers wouldn’t come out on cold, dark rainy days. The result, however, was a hung parliament and the first Labour government, helped by the Liberals. Just sayin’.
“A ‘no-deal’ Brexit will be devastating”
I quoted Overheard Bloke in the Gym Changing Room not long after the referendum: ‘We should say ‘You’ve had your last cheque, Merkel’, close the borders, job done!’ If we’d followed his sage advice rather than fannying around for four years, we’d have been through the...
