Don't mourn - organise! This week's piece on a puzzle of British politics: why are Remainers - a tribe that is still large and committed - so ineffective at bending government policy? www.economist.com/britain/2024...

I think that I/'we' lent Labour our Votes in July, despite Starmer's idiotic commitment to 'Never Rejoin anything, ever', because we all knew that the Tories need to be eviscerated was more important. Starmer won't have that luxury next time, and he knows that, so I think

I pointed out to the European Conservative Forum members some time ago that it would cost just £5M in membership fees to take over the key Conservative constituencies and dump the incumbent Boris Babes. Now it’s much less, due to RefUK.

Because they - we - are not agreed about how and when it should be bent, even as we agree about the destination,

There are quite a few new MPs, Labour and LD, who campaigned for Stronger In so will be interesting to see if that has any impact on things

Because we were told repeatedly by remain campaign leaders after May triggered us leaving to stay quiet while and so leavers could come to the realisation it was a disaster on their own.