Pay increases in the public sector should be much lower than in the private sector, as pay should increase in line with productivity and productivity is increasing far slower (or actually falling) in… (View Post)

The Conservatives need Labour to screw up, which is how you win from Opposition. Then the Reform and Lib Dem problems will solve themselves. It also helps to give people some positive reasons to vote… (View Post)

That story is a paradigm for our politics. No matter how bad the Conservatives have been, Labour are several degrees worse. (View Post)

Partly that. Partly it must embarrass him on some level to have to see a leader with judgement, character, principles and guts every day when he has none of any of those. (View Post)

I've spent more of my career than I'd have liked in negotiations with the EU and nothing with them is low hanging fruit. They are mostly arrogant, inflexible and dogmatic (except when it suits them, … (View Post)