There was no way to avoid increasing debt in 2010 given the toxic legacy Brown bequeathed. To avoid that would have entailed running a huge budget surplus to counter the borrowing of the early years,… (View Post)

I'm not praising him for losing it, I'm praising him for holding it. The issue had riven the nation and the Party for generations. Brown and Blair had ran scared of the issue promising a referendum o… (View Post)

His time as PM ended up as such an "abject failure" that having been behind in almost every poll in the 2010-15 Parliament, and having surprisingly won quite a narrow majority in 2015 . . .… (View Post)

I'd like us to get rid of the monarchy but quite frankly there's far many more serious issues to worry about that I'm content not rock the boat on that. If Charles causes issues then we can readdress… (View Post)

1950? He seems to view the Conservatives as the Tory Party of landed gentry, church and state of 1750. (View Post)