If someone falls behind on their mortgage and it is repossessed and sold, they may be left with enough capital that the state can avoid paying them many benefits for a while. And of course we're… (View Post)

It's a measure of how quickly things can change once a tipping point is passed. The difficult question is always, "how close is the tipping point?" We may soon see this with respect to… (View Post)

It feels like it could be quite controversial to increase the deposit, as you're explicitly making it harder for people to stand as candidates, which looks like politicians trying to protect the… (View Post)

Let's say that a bad shuffle divides the deck into three sections, reversing the order of those sections. The first division is somewhere in the first half of the deck (maybe around 20 different… (View Post)

Nominations don't close until Friday at 4pm, so we can't know for sure. Imagine if Reform cock-up their nomination papers and there isn't a Reform candidate either? (View Post)