It’s utter derangement. Our original membership terms proved to be immensely punitive, and it is highly unlikely we would even join back on those terms. It would be a punishment beating. For what pur… (View Post)

Wouldn’t it now require us to be the same size as Germany. Who really believes if we had stayed in the EU we would now have the same size economy as Germany? (View Post)

It's much more subtle than that. Good well run councils, at a staff and councillor level are attractive to work for. A good culture takes a long time to take a hold, and will pass down from one … (View Post)

It's also devastating in local government, a political group that runs a council well/badly is neither rewarded of punished. (View Post)

Is it not the case that it works a bit like that already? UC is a live system that interacts with salaries declared to HMRC and moves up and down accordingly to claimants. (View Post)