Essentially, the Liberal Party was barely functioning, between 1935 and 1959. In 1951 and 1955, they held 5 or their remaining 6 seats, only because the Conservatives did not field candidates against… (View Post)

People dying before they can recover compensation is a feature, not a bug, of these compensation schemes. We are governed by people who, mostly, do not give a flying f*ck about the average citizen. (View Post)

CS Lewis nailed the Process State. The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid “dens of crime” that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those… (View Post)

The government should have just stuck to its guns on the WFP. Pensioners do not need it, and most do not vote Labour. (View Post)

Polling suggests that support for Reform has surged most strongly among social renters, and working class voters, whereas Labour's support has held up most strongly, further up the social scale.… (View Post)