I think Nick Palmer has made the point here before that, prior to reforms brought in by the Major government, the pension scheme for MPs was very poor. Which meant MPs would literally work until they… (View Post)

I think Sweden has it about right on this. For a constitutional change to happen, it has to be passed by parliament twice, with a general election in between.. (View Post)

Cameron was explicit. Before the vote, he said if the vote was to leave, he would trigger A50 straight away. Only he didn't. If he had, it would have had the 2 positive effects of a) killing off any … (View Post)

But it is our attitudes to property and housing which have damaged the economy. (View Post)

The atheism was incidental. Totalitarians, whether Nazi, Fascist, Communist, military or whatever, do not tolerate alternative independent sources of power/truth e.g. organised religions or similar. … (View Post)