I expect that the reason for it is a factional dispute about who gets to select candidates and which areas/candidates receive financial campaigning support. So it's a truce in which each faction… (View Post)

Wow. All the money they raised. All the trouble they went to organising a founding conference and choosing a name, and they aren't going to stand candidates in elections? What an absolute shambl… (View Post)

I think it is 90% poor paying employers. The system has to somehow force people into crap work with crap wages while not starving too many people who don't cooperate, and not costing an absolute… (View Post)

Yes, the welfare safety net should apply to child 3, and 4, etc. But the main problem we have here is that the majority of people in receipt of the welfare safety net are in work. That's no long… (View Post)

I think the two-child cap is bad policy and results in bad outcomes. But I also think that fiscal transfers are a bad way to combat poverty, and yet another example of a failure of Blairite ideology.… (View Post)