The truth is that even to stand still needs more money, yet there are inexorable demographic and other pressures all around. The big lie of the election is to avoid the fact that, somehow, taxes will… (View Post)

The voters who read all your leaflets, keep and file them in order, and can quote bits back to you, are the scary ones, for sure. (View Post)

Fair enough. But the whole EU issue is where the Tories stopped being pragmatic, and became ideological, putting their beliefs in front of ‘what works’. A compromise ‘Norway for now’ might have avoid… (View Post)

So they’ve tweaked it and are banking on getting as much publicity as if they’d done another proper job of work from scratch? (View Post)

But not me. Many years ago, the site told me that IanB was taken, so I joined up with the 2. Maybe Mr Bailey got there first, but if he did, I never saw him using the tag here. (View Post)