What would people feel about an unconditional basic payment to all families with children, the same size as the state pension? Child poverty = 31%, pensioner poverty = 16%. (View Post)

No, it’s not. If all those new houses are hoovered up by our minted landlord class (or faceless overseas corporations) then you’ve just ended up with more lifelong Labour voters. The Conservatives re… (View Post)

It’s bizarrely one-dimensional. A prosperous Poland is good for Germany, for example, which happens to be a significant trade partner direct trade partner for the UK. One of our major defence compani… (View Post)

Poland and the UK have roughly the same tax burden and welfare spending, as a percentage of GDP. The main difference is they spend most of theirs on families with children, while in the UK it goes on… (View Post)

It’s funny because the working-age benefits bill isn’t actually growing as a percentage of GDP. It’s basically been the same for the last 15 years. People are forever misusing UC migration stats and … (View Post)