Bit like the Tory Party on here this morning, with 148 playing the Lee Anderson role, a surprising twist. Will you apologise? No, fuck off. Ban him! (View Post)

Your link is well worth a read, as it's a great precis of why nothing ever gets done in this country. Haxby re-opening has been rumbling on for decades. Don't hold your breath. (View Post)

I agree with you - rancorous Tory splits are nothing new. Before the schisms on Europe, there was a pretty heated war between the wets and the dries under Thatcher. (View Post)

I wonder if Andy Street should be on Tory Party resignation watch? He was mightily pissed off with the HS2 decision, and seems a decent chap who clearly doesn't want any part of the current divi… (View Post)

As you hint in your penultimate sentence, virtually all of the reduction in the CS numbers was illusory. Maude and Osborne contracted out huge numbers of functions. Where numbers were genuinely cut, … (View Post)