I took a 40% pay cut on election and didn't spend significant time on compensating work - nor did anyone else that I knew, except for a GP who kept up his practice. Basically you stand for elect… (View Post)

Johnson is a near neighbour in my Oxfordshire village - regularly see him shambling about with miscellaneous kids, and get an amiable greeting from him. A friend who hadn't recognised him was co… (View Post)

I was a Labour MP for 13 years under Blair and Brown, and broadly supportive, not because I agreed with everything, but because I liked the overall sense of direction towards a more equal society. I&… (View Post)

You feel he should appease them? (View Post)

I don't really mind elected councils flying flags of countries that they promised to support, or British flags if they said they'd do that, or indeed refusing to fly flags. That's demo… (View Post)