The other possibility is that Raab stands for another seat that isn't Esher. As the number of seats is increasing in the SE and with retirements, there should be enough decent seats to go round with … (View Post)

Interesting - Perhaps the govt was kite flying with the NI rise and will find a more popular way of funding it. (View Post)

Supermarket update: Went to a Sainsbury's in East Berkshire tonight. They had no Steak and Ale pies but apart from that everything else was in stock (View Post)

Currently Patel is not doing that well in the ConHome members cabinet rankings (probably due to the channel boats): https://www.conservativehome.com/thetorydiary/2021/08/from-self-isolation-to-score-… (View Post)

A couple of other points: 1) People know that dealing with a pandemic is extremely difficult and are willing to give the government the benefit of the doubt 2) If you look at the countries we would n… (View Post)