You're also touching on a very important point there, and one that I think explains the difficulties our economies have had over the last 30 years - intertemporal disequilibrium. I've been thinking t… (View Post)

But PR has huge disadvantages too. In particular, it virtually guarantees that most government policy will be thrashed out, not in front of the electorate or in Parliament, but in the proverbial smok… (View Post)

They shouldn't bother. It's a tired franchise that needs to be put out of its misery. You can only rip off your own movie so many times before the formula goes beyond stale. (View Post)

And the Labour one? Angela bloody Rayner, David useless Lammy, Rachel from Accounts and Two-Tier, Free Gear Sir Kneel? What a mob. Face it, with minor, isolated exceptions, our whole political class … (View Post)

But, whatever individual studies say, government is terrible at getting value from "investment", i.e. spending, which is usually politically directed, incompetently managed and captured by … (View Post)