IIRC the UK defence budget is something like the size of the US Marine Corp. While they have an advantage of leveraging the procurement of the other services, the disparity of what we achieve is pret… (View Post)

1) You can tax and spend in a balanced manner - your borrowing costs will be low. Markets don't have a problem with this, though your growth projections will be lower. 2) You can tax and not spe… (View Post)

Gordon Brown has been brought back, because Starmer thinks Brown represents a time when the Labour Government was led by a PM who united the party and had political sense. Think about that. (View Post)

Mordor is not known for its abysses. Perhaps you mean Khazad-dûm? (View Post)

That’s rather hard on our Marxists. But fair, in many ways. (View Post)