I have had a bit of an argument in another place of social media about what I perceive as Labour's irresponsibility in borrowing more, particularly to borrow more to spend more in current spendi… (View Post)

Are you referring to the crown estates there? By virtue of being sovereign, the monarch has a 100% liability to fund the British state because they are the British state. All their money belongs to t… (View Post)

Taxpayers do fund the Royal Family. I don't quite know how the duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster escaped being part of the crown estate, but the sovereign surrendered their estates in return for… (View Post)

There seem to be quite a disparate group of us on PB.com who voted Labour for the first time, or at least the first time in a long time, at the GE. The only thing that seems to unite us is the belief… (View Post)

"She claims Keir Starmer is discovering the perils of not having such a plan." Hard to disagree with that. (Quotation from The Guardian, all errors are there's.) (View Post)