What the government spend money on and what the public thinks we spend on are miles apart. Junk the Triple lock to fund defence. So: The state pension cost £110.5bn in 2022-2023, just under half the … (View Post)

Nearly all those council houses are BTL rental properties now. We are living the legacy of Mrs Thatcher's Right To Buy. We have privatised the assets, and now will be paying forever. (View Post)

Just as well. Imagine what he would be like if he was slapdash with his language! (View Post)

No, 18 countries voted against. Apart from Israel these all look like Russian puppet regimes. (View Post)

We spend about a quarter of our aid budget in the UK on asylum seekers. Short of a blanket amnesty it's difficult to cut this. Of the remainder we spend another quarter (£3 billion) on our own p… (View Post)