And I don't see how they recover without breaking the pledge. No one believes manifestos anyway. (View Post)

. Not much we can do about that now. But we could do something about reducing the costs. (View Post)

It's been discussed a bit here. A smart government would have already been preparing legislation to mitigate the more egregious contracts. (View Post)

Yes, I think most of us would probably agree that this is the speech which ought to have been made before the last budget. (View Post)

While there's probably something in that, I suspect it's overdetermined. The fallacy lies in thinking that the next election will follow the same dynamics as the last one. And note, of course, that t… (View Post)