Yes, fair enough. I was thinking in highly simplistic terms of just removing all these universal benefits and making cash transfers to poor people. But policy by policy, some of them are more efficie… (View Post)

In case it kicks off and someone gets injured. That will cost the firm much more than any shoplifting. (When I worked there, "someone" tackled a shoplifter as they ran out. This smashed a w… (View Post)

I'm not sure about that - the analysis so far suggests it doesn't have much of an effect on Scottish taxpayers. That doesn't mean there isn't a big risk. Part of the tolerance tha… (View Post)

I think a change to the fiscal rules around borrowing for capital investment might be what Labour go for. Something like as long as the structural deficit is coming down as a percentage of GDP, and a… (View Post)

I think that is a big story in that Starmer will make an example of him. To be fair, one of my former landlords had no idea how much of an arsehole the letting agent was being to us, and recompensed … (View Post)