Overnight counts are very hard on politicians and campaigners, and expensive for councils, with a whole shedload of staff on premium rate payments overnight and then the council effectively shuts dow… (View Post)

It’s a spectacle for the spectators, and gets it over with quickly for the participants, but it’s physically tough. For my council elections I was usually out doing early morning deliveries at 5 am a… (View Post)

Truss went about things in an idiotic, stupid, hubristic way, ignoring the OBR and the rest, but at least you could see, from her own idealistic perspective, what she thought she was trying to achiev… (View Post)

The logic of paying tax, but not NI, on pension income is that, when you paid in, you got tax relief, but not NI relief, on your contributions. Salary sacrifice undermines that, as it effectively del… (View Post)

In the old days, provided you were willing to choose between Labour and Tory, accept the consequential compromises, and had a reasonable degree of ability, you would get a national political career, … (View Post)