NB, for all those claiming that leaving the EU has had no impact on the UK because we’ve done about as well in economic growth terms over the last five years or so, a new paper published this month b… (View Post)

When my youngest passed his test last year I got talking to one of the examiners & they told me they’d had an entire day of tests the previous week where nobody had turned up. It’s possible that … (View Post)

The driving test backlog was already a problem (but not a serious one) before the pandemic & then the pandemic backlog tipped the entire system into a new, failed state. It’s somehow typical of t… (View Post)

Depends on which country you move to IIRC. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/state-pensions-annual-increases-if-you-live-abroad/countries-where-we-pay-an-annual-increase-in-the-state-pension (View Post)

Is the Starmer No 10 even less competent than the Sunak regime? Or even (whisper it) the Truss regime? If bond prices collapse then we’re seeing Trussian levels of fiscal incompetence. Truss made a s… (View Post)