Honestly, after COVID and Putin being a knob, that doesn't look too bad. If we'd had a windfall tax on high earners during the COVID period - as we usually do during a period of national cr… (View Post)

I think Reeves gets away with it on a technicality; there was a significant downgrade in growth/productivity assumptions by the OBR which is what she was alluding to - but there was also a significan… (View Post)

Perhaps they would have had -0.8% and -0.3% if it wasn't for the single market? Some of the economic analysis on PB is mind-bogglingly simplistic at times. On the broader point, I know Labour ha… (View Post)

Only in a very simplistic way. Teachers operate in a labour market like everyone else - a sticky one, given the time taken train up - but their wages are determined by what they can earn elsewhere to… (View Post)

250,000 "White British" v 30,000 "Asian Pakistani". No doubt more representation in minority groups, but if the Conservatives used it on a poster it would absolutely insane. Stick… (View Post)