But they haven't have they? No immigration control, it's even worse than before. Some signs of higher wages at first but subsequently overtaken by inflation. No obvious signs of extra money… (View Post)

The rule of thumb is you can take 4-5% out of your pension pot capital value. So for an income of £20k you would need a pot of £800k to £1m. My private pension pot as a well paid private sector emplo… (View Post)

You should only count additional passengers. I have been an Elizabeth Line user for 25 years, only they didn't call it that back then. Any journey I make on it now, I would have made anyway. Alt… (View Post)

Strikes, tax rates and asset sales are specific actions, which may or may not be beneficial as a whole but have to be assessed in conjunction with the other actions taken at the same time. Of course … (View Post)

I agree with that to an extent. I just started with Thatcher because it's within my memory, but going back to my childhood it felt like Callaghan was trying to deal with the mess he inherited fr… (View Post)