And a fair bit of the success of Thatcher, Major and Blair was about being in the right place at the right time. The time when the boomers were net taxpayers as much as anything else. They were happy… (View Post)

It's ot as if he's totally green as to the nature of conversations here. (View Post)

Though a lot of those benefits have a different property; it's much harder to do the exponentially bigger thing with them that you can do with money. If a boss is given a country club membership… (View Post)

The key word is rumours. Most rumours in the press are tosh, because there are pages to be filled. It's just that we all tend to believe rumours that we want to be true and ignore ones that we d… (View Post)

Often popular even after they have been tried and found to fail. The failure will be because the politicians didn't do it properly. (View Post)