We are seeing the long term effects of austerity right across the public sector. A year or two is manageable, a decade or two causes a major decline in the quality of service. It's like in my wo… (View Post)

Here's an interesting graph on ballooning agricultural land prices: It's clearly not being driven by farms becoming massively more profitable. (View Post)

Council tax is banded, not a percentage, so is quite a regressive tax. The highest bands are structured to be more than the lowest, but nowhere near the difference in value. (View Post)

Because we don't pay for schooling and training? A high proportion of immigrants are better qualified than the average Brit. (View Post)

Has Sunil now got competition? Is it time to resolve it with a duel? (View Post)