Maybe it's different in Edinburgh, but in London to earn £57k you would be in the managerial roles in most public sector organisations, which in my field is at least 30% under market rate (even allow… (View Post)

I'd agree with a lot of that. Though cutting public sector pay won't work as from where I'm sitting, it's too low already with too many vacancies that can't be filled (at least, not by anyone vaguely… (View Post)

I've got about 10 years to go and all my spare investment (not much anyway) is in a Shares ISA so I can't really put it anywhere else. I haven't cancelled the monthly standing order as I can't call t… (View Post)

Thank you. I would have thought it was unlikely, but frankly, who knows? (View Post)

There was a comment upthread (from @MoonRabbit ?) that the LDs always get a local election bounce, and I thought that too - but looking at the Yougov data as I happened to have it open doesn't bear t… (View Post)