On that note, it has been reported the bomb was not a bomb. Presumably it was there to fool the police into shooting him, thus ensuring his passage to heaven. Paradoxically, if you have been indoctri… (View Post)

So as I said, no immediate saving, and future savings only from the time the triple lock increase would be higher than whatever replaces the triple lock (assuming the state pension will not be frozen… (View Post)

It sounds like you have mistaken the whole pension bill for the annual increase, and are then aggregating future years pensions but not the rest of government spending. (View Post)

The claim that: cut the triple lock on pensions. That alone would bring public finances into primary surplus seems far-fetched. Cutting the state pension in half might do it but that would be, in Sir… (View Post)

I'm not quite ready to dismiss the suspicion based on Kemi's PMQs, that she is not being deliberately undermined by some faction or other at CCHQ writing her nonsensical scripts, a bit like the way L… (View Post)