I remember that once we used to have competent governments....is that a false memory too? (View Post)

My father was a bit of a local legend across a number of sports. But at the time, few were professional e.g. tennis was still amateur and few paid big money, so unless you were going to be the best o… (View Post)

My Dad played very high level of cricket in the era (and against) the likes of Boycott, Truman, Close in those Yorkshire leagues. It was very working class where you were deemed a posho if you went t… (View Post)

Well yes it was obviously the quid pro quo of unions supporting Labour. The sort of thing that Tories taking money from business for these kind of favours rightly gets blasted. (View Post)

I think it was much simpler than that. Inflation was running at 10%, but forecast to drop to 2% by the next year. The anchoring for any pay rise will always be a real terms increase or very least mat… (View Post)