The takeways appear to be: - people like voting Reform to chuck out an incumbent from one of the "failed" parties, but once Reform becomes the incumbent, their appeal drops away; - centre-l… (View Post)

I'd like to see the US compared to other countries once they strip out all the padding and crap from their declared total - for example their including the huge cost of veterans' healthcare… (View Post)

Most likely. The risk appears to be spending a large amount of money on large, highly visible bits of military kit, whether on land or sea, that some kid in a basement can take out with a £1000 drone? (View Post)

How do we know they're not doing what the UK did a while back, and redefining what constitutes 'defence' spending to embrace previously excluded categories? There's an accepted NA… (View Post)

Thanks for clarifying that; we'd never have worked that out otherwise. (View Post)