While I'm in favour of tax cuts at the bottom, I'm not sure it's necessarily healthy to have so many people paying ni tax and to be reliant on a small number of very high tax payers. W… (View Post)

Fair enough - you'd know Stockton North better than most. Though amazing the Tories amassed so many votes in SN if so many of their erstwhile voters had gone to another party. (View Post)

Assuming Brexit party voters would otherwise have voted Tory. Which is always a slightly dubious assumption - though the margin here was so small you may well be right. (View Post)

Specifically, Stockton NORTH is, allegedly, a shithole. Stockton South is quite nice. Stockton is one of a troika of unfashionable east coast towns in which I have bought really good trousers, along … (View Post)

Conservative budgets bribe voters with their own money. Labour budgets bribe peope with other people's money. (View Post)