Yes. Same reason that people knocking the current government for ”only getting 33% of the vote” (or whatever it was) are misguided: there’s plenty of pro-Labour voters who could see that the Tory vot… (View Post)

The problem is that running a secure database system like that requires paying developers & database administrators & all those other expensive IT contractors. It’s /so/ much easier for a civ… (View Post)

At the time Letby was taken off duty they simultaneously downgraded the unit from one that was graded to take Level 2 premature babies & was often (I believe) taking Level 3 to only being allowed… (View Post)

Let me just quote your own words back at you: “Our biggest source of tax - income tax (60% of HMRC revenues) - does not even cover our interest payments on debt” Our biggest source of tax does cover … (View Post)

Fine, I’ll spell it out for you. UK government interest payments were £107billion in 2023/24 and are forecast to rise slightly at current rates of interest: https://obr.uk/forecasts-in-depth/tax-by-t… (View Post)