I've never heard the Green vote described as sticky before. Perhaps the 1-2% who have resisted the squeeze are by definition sticky, but, generally, my impression is that possible Green voters h… (View Post)

He'd said that an MP should be shot. Bearing in mind that there have been two murdered MPs in eight years, and it doesn't seem unreasonable to take that sort of thing seriously. (View Post)

That's mental. You want to keep an entire class of ownership structure for the sole purpose of creating an investment return for pensions. Thereby taxing leaseholders to pay out pensions. Why? Y… (View Post)

And, that's all Britain has had to do for decades. A couple of short Gulf Wars, the Falklands, some limited air campaigns, and some unsuccessful counter-insurgency policing. But if anything was … (View Post)

Kinda, but it also is a good example of the naiveté with which we've approached defence. The last Storm Shadow missile was manufactured several years ago, and I don't think production has b… (View Post)