Real household incomes have risen in line with GDP per capita. At a guess I would say you can reconcile the numbers through (a) more people being in work (the employment rate was about 70% in 2008, c… (View Post)

Ineffectual governments will often poke their opponents in the eye. I think this is completely trivial, just a piece of nastiness. (View Post)

That is certainly true, as well. (View Post)

The BMA is like the scorpion in the fable of the scorpion and the frog. No sooner do they get a government to their liking, than they stab it in the back, because it's in their nature. (View Post)

@Luckyguy1983 the recovery in the right wing vote really takes it back to normal. In 2015, it was 51%, in 2017, 45%, in 2018, 48%. It dipped to 38% in 2024, due both to some switchers to Labour and L… (View Post)