@RochdalePioneers,old chap. The SNP are doing exactly the same thing up here. Holyrood is implementing real-time cuts to local government, despite the block grant from Westminster going up. . All 32 … (View Post)

18 days before Boris catches Spencer Perceval. 115 before he outlasts Gordon Brown... (View Post)

Well, yes, it was uncontroversial until Blackford et al decided to make it controversial by insisting that English taxpayers would pay Scots pensions after Indy. What it really shows up is a remarkab… (View Post)

Listening to "Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)". Good soundtrack for this period in our lives? Much better than I remembered. Fripp's guitar! (View Post)

My view is that if Boris and his crowd are reasonably confident that they'd win a VONC then he'd be much better off triggering one. There is a chance it would clear the air, and make any subsequent r… (View Post)