That battle is lost - unless you tax the likes of Amazon properly, and tax home deliveries in lieu of business rates. And ban out of town retail parks. High Streets in the 21st century aren’t for buy… (View Post)

You’re gonna be out of a job at this rate ;) But seriously, would all the human rights protections that usually apply just get discarded for this kind of show trial? Wouldn’t this all get appealed up… (View Post)

The problem is it relies on people like me going out with a watering can and looking after the saplings. Any funding for them had to include a long term maintenance element, otherwise local councils … (View Post)

A Dunno about that - there are 60,000 civil servants at the MOD, more than the RN and RAF combined. We could swap them out and field 3 new divisions instead. Slightly baffled by your new found love o… (View Post)

I wouldn’t mind spending 3% if we took the same approach as the French - fully independent nukes + much more aggressive towards Russia. But there are people in this thread suggesting we should let th… (View Post)