The people who want the most nannying are old age pensioners, ie the Tory client vote. (View Post)

I keep trying to figure out what my strategy from here would be, if I was Truss. And I just can’t. Clinging on and hoping the storm will blow over is basically her only option. (View Post)

New Zealand poll. Labour 29.5% (-5.5% from August) National 36.0% (+0.5%) Greens 12.5% (+3.5%) ACT 12.5% (+2.0%) Maori 3.5% (-1.5%) I don’t think we’ve seen Labour sub 30 before. The Māori co-governa… (View Post)

That’s fine, but even your last para you concede there is political merit. Yet we kept being told a few weeks ago that Labour’s policy was in some sense undeliverable. (View Post)

I have sympathy with “going for growth”. But there’s no plan. Nobody’s done the hard thinking and nobody has figured out how to sell it. Just saying “growth through deregulation and tax cuts for the … (View Post)