I agree with your assessment of the problem. My focus on the 45% tax bracket is that it appears to me to be peculiarly self-defeating. It looks to me like you would raise more tax simply by abolishin… (View Post)

Oh, certainly. I was just disputing the 'it's failed every single time it's been tried' angle with the first example which came to mind. Tax cuts can be self-funding if - rather t… (View Post)

On which subject, I was idly wondering last week: what happened to Krist Novoselic, the bassist from Nirvana? Kurt shot himself, Dave went on to become the biggest rock star in the world, Krist ... b… (View Post)

I'm not in the John Caudwell category, but I've voted Tory the last six elections. Abandoning HS2 would mean I wouldn't vote for them a seventh time. I mean, I'm wavering anyway. … (View Post)

As Sunil doesn't appear to have popped up, I will step in to confirm that, yes, it's the old Manchester Central station, which was the terminus of the old Midland Railway. Closed in, I thin… (View Post)