Indeed.

I think my favourite Pratchett observation is that the human brain is run “by a committee”.

What I love about conference season is the knowledge that, either at the end of Labour conference or the start of Tory, my brain will just drop a “we’re an only child. We need time alone and I am just gonna flood your system with bad endorphins until you give it to me”.

I think it’s that they have too many religious conservatives in the parliamentary party for 2) but aren’t willing to abandon the promise of it to commit to 1).

Labour had a v good and swift reactive quote and she got hammered on it on Laura K tbf.

None of these blocks are big enough to win alone - they just don’t collapse under the weight of their own contradictions or preclude getting more votes from somewhere else.

“Yes to the Commonwealth, no to the EEA” was a crucial bloc of the UK’s Leave vote.

Yes, I am aware that the Commonwealth includes African and south Asian countries.

Yeah, I think so.