There used to be minimum housing standards. The Conservatives abolished them. (View Post)

The cost of compulsory purchase is large, but it is "only" about £3 billion. The largest single cost item is the design of the run-in to Euston, which has still not been properly costed. Th… (View Post)

Yes. The Conservatives like to fight straw men, little understanding how extreme their positions have become. According to this new orthodoxy, even Osborne and Cameron would be unacceptably Leftist. (View Post)

FPTP is even better for extremists. They do not have to declare themselves. Corbyn was leader of the entire Labour Party, and the Conservatives, after they left the Pan European Conservative Peoples … (View Post)

So what? The majority of democratic political systems use some form of PR, and its pretty arguable that Meloni is more right wing than -say- Truss. The language used by the current Tory claque about … (View Post)