The political problem for the country is that the Tories did this without being honest about it, and without making the case to the public about why it should be supported. Instead they trumpeted tax… (View Post)

The Tories may be many things, but an entirely known entity is definitively not one of them. (View Post)

Blair ceded so much of the domestic agenda to Brown that you can make a strong case for Brown's consequentialism. And then he also blocked Blair from trying to join the Euro, and that certainly … (View Post)

I think Casino argued around 3.5% would be needed. Of course, x% of GDP goes a bit further if GDP is higher. (View Post)

Wasn't the lesson of the Brexit campaign that the more you try to explain away a numerical "lie" from the other side, the more you amplify the original claim, and the more you reinforc… (View Post)