If one candidate wins it bigly, then the other will obviously demand more debates, but the victor will have no incentive whatsoever to agree to them.
If it’s just another political memoir about climbing the greasy pole and getting bored once you reach the top, then we can toss it in the “I might read that later” column, with all the other political memoirs.
Is there anything to be said for another consultation?
Annoying
A look at Denmark, Netherlands and elswhere
In modern democracies, political offices are just one of a whole series of interlocking institutions that wield political power. Capturing one of them is not enough. There are no shortcuts.
We have a bizarre situation where the next Government will be bound – at least to some degree – by major spending decisions taken in the dying days of this one.
Not heaped on the taxpayer
Which came first? The Catholic Church? Or the people? The latter, surely: nowhere else in Europe was the Catholic Church given such power by democratically-elected governments.
A return to ‘Christian Europe’ or does something new beckon?
Passed the House
Appalling abuses are happening right now.