Ramping up debt does grow the economy in the short term. It's quite funny how this is a fine and dandy plan when done by right wing governments, and completely irresponsible economic lunacy when… (View Post)

Because even Badenoch isn't dumb enough to bring back memories of Truss.. Bond yields go up and down, but it was the abrupt shift that was so destabilising. (View Post)

Unless you want grannies lugging bricks a lot of building requires a lot of immigrant labour. We don't have the numbers of construction workers otherwise. (View Post)

Well, people say they are sick of it, but then we see the furore when WFP was cut. People want services that other people use to be cut, not ones that they use themselves. The problem is that a very … (View Post)

We are not so much a Nanny State as a Granny State. The over 65s are 20% of the population and more than that as a percentage of the voters. We let the dead tree press set the political agenda, but t… (View Post)