It feels to me that Wallace would be very much an IDS figure, and not just because of his military background. Clearly a decent man, reasonably competent junior minister, OK-ish cabinet minister, but… (View Post)

Also legally you have to balance the budget. So it's merely a question of which bit of the law you want to fall foul of. (View Post)

90% of school budgets go on staff. So this means a complete freeze on teacher salaries (already uncompetitive) which will mean many of them leaving as they are generally capable graduates with transf… (View Post)

And then complain loudly that they have to pay anything at all because they've "paid my taxes all these years" (View Post)

Did he try for Oxbridge? My school (a different Surrey grammar) had a 'Scholarship 6th' whereby you went back for a term and a bit and crammed for the entrance exam. That left you 6 months to kill bu… (View Post)