They really should have just said screw it, we’re putting up the 20% and 40% income tax rates to 22% and 42%, with a plan to drop them back again before the next election, no thanks to the massive bl… (View Post)

Sadly recent history suggests that the only things on which all the politicians can agree, are either removing rights in the name of safety, or on giving themselves pay rises. See today’s BBC article… (View Post)

Same as VAT on school fees, cutting the WFA, IHT on farmland etc - it’s a thinking that these things benefit “The Rich” and are therefore bad, no matter the cost of their changes. Which is why the go… (View Post)

Why would you ever want to cut programmes in the middle of a school year? All that will happen is the Latin teachers will move to private tutoring, so those who can afford it can still do the exams w… (View Post)

They did no vetting on most of the councillor candidates, many of whom were supposed to be no more than paper candidates and didn’t expect to be elected, only to discover that a number of them had be… (View Post)