if someone had recently given a speech as eloquent and intellectually complex yet clear-minded as the Thatcher speech Stephen mentioned, it would have led to Harry Cole hitting his big red head like an angry chimp and writing in the Sun that Big Words Bad Why Hate Britain Like This? Boo!

I feel honour bound to apologise

I'm increasingly distrustful of those surveys. They feel like the opportunities for respondents to make a point. I wrote a big blog post about vibes based reasoning and it was a quarter aimed at them

Most is internal funds. Not an interest rate story IMHO

Thatcher moved the centre of gravity rightwards. Reeves believes (correctly imho) in privatised utilities and free movement of capital and independent monetary policy - all would seem rather right wing in the early 1980s. 3/

one of my memories of reading John Campbell's Jenkins biography is how Roy Jenkins was deemed irretrievably right wing for thinking there is ANY limit on how high government spending as a share of the economy might go, when 50% was on the cards. Hope it is not a false memory! 2/

‘I am their leader, I must follow them’ (Hacker).

Yes. If net migration was nil but immigration say 500k. The 'cultural replacement' racist objectors would still have a big issue with it. The net migration argument only works on the "strain on services" objectors group. Who I guess are not the majority.

The use of Luton makes the picture particularly grim

I'll reflect on that while my airplane taxis on the third runway