Nothing to do with prison overcrowding. Some of a certain political persuasion don't believe people agitating for asylum seekers to be burnt alive deserve to be in prison at all. (View Post)

That would be a great, if unplanned, result with genuine social benefit and would help alleviate pensioner poverty. People should take the benefits owing to them. Unlike WFP, they are there to protec… (View Post)

Yeah but this is the politics equivalent of "we all die". This is true. At some point Labour will be replaced and in the absence of alternatives the replacement is likely to be the conserva… (View Post)

I agree with that. The important thing the Tories did in 2024 was to avoid extinction, which wasn't a given if the polling before the election had been accurate. They will live on to fight anoth… (View Post)

Ironically an outcome of the WFA business might be a higher take-up of Pension Credit, which will do vastly more for reducing pensioner poverty than WFA, while costing the State more overall once the… (View Post)