I don't think we can be bound forever to practice policy based on aphorisms uttered by a foreign politician who's been dead for over a century. (View Post)

Sure, like I said, but... rules are rules, and if he broke them, then... Point is, and eventually someone will do this, if you go through everything Starmer has ever said about Johnson and Partygate,… (View Post)

No, it's not about the rules. It's about what Starmer actually said. And he made plenty of jokes about the PM boozing on the job that could come back to bite him. (View Post)

Vatican City has about 800 people, so if we're working off literal meanings, then it's obviously correct but it wasn't really a meaningful statement in the first place. (View Post)

Yeah, no. What you actually want is devolution of spending, and continued centralisation of taxation. Real local devolution would just lead to London and the South East pulling further ahead of the r… (View Post)