Never a good time for your parents to pass away. You have my condolences. On the wider point, what you're saying is - even for very liberal left-wing people like you - is that people don't much like … (View Post)

They really want it to be 2002 again, so they can turn the spending taps on. It's a state of denial. (View Post)

Under strong political pressure to drive growth. We will get Labour's Double Whammy*: higher prices, and higher taxes. [*Credit to S&S and John Major, GE1992] (View Post)

I'd infinitely prefer to have my parents alive for forever. However, it's their money and not the Government's. (View Post)

If that's true then the Empire would never have broken up, it'd have defaulted to violent oppression, and we wouldn't have the world we have today. You're really objecting to the fact geopolitics was… (View Post)