Are we going to have to wait until October or November every year of this parliament wondering how she's going to make our shit sandwich even bigger? The uncertainty it drives into the economy and in… (View Post)

I think it's even simpler than that (which implies the competence to execute a conspiracy and a strategy): they simply became more interested in pissing contests over anything else, and doing whateve… (View Post)

Lots of people with real-world experience of Communism become staunch Conservatives. (View Post)

The Dublin Agreement has virtually nothing to do with the boat crossings. That was asylum seekers and smugglers testing an alternative route hitherto considered dangerous but - because all other rout… (View Post)

I don't think government is very good at picking winners. It could be half-decent at seed funding for new tech, but it would have to accept an 80% failure rate, for the few winners, and I doubt the T… (View Post)