Sale of my mother's flat went through on the last day of March, with the whole chain desperate to conclude before the stamp duty change. That this, on a macro scale, affected the economic data i… (View Post)

Bizarrely, one of the 4% was a regular PB’er at the time. (View Post)

First! (View Post)

I suspect we are currently at peak Reform. Spotting the decline, until it becomes obvious, will be difficult, but in some months time we will see it, as happened to the SDP during the early ‘80s. (View Post)

Don't be silly - had that been the case, it would have been a generation before anyone could get a full state pension. Whereas in reality the state pension started straight away, funded from the… (View Post)