The point is, it's 5 years to the next election. You don't need to sell it, it should have results inside 5 years. All governments should do the unpopular things in year 1 and not bother to explain. (View Post)

As a civil servant I am supposed to return any delay repay to my employer (View Post)

I'm on a Dutch/German intercity train that will be an hour late, because the ICE to Berlin that was the first part of my journey has been cancelled. Wondering if I can get delay repay out of NS Inter… (View Post)

Which were necessary. As a no-doubt well-paid lawyer (and rightly so) you have a strange belief that effective public service can be delivered without paying a reasonable wage. Yes there are other th… (View Post)

Sometimes government policy doesn't survive contact with officials. Minister: we need to release prisoners early Officials: well they could either plan a accelerated early release programme or just p… (View Post)