Also, I didn't see RR taking the credit, just being pleased for British business. And a lot of what we need is a bit of optimism. (View Post)

For all the noise about culling the woke Civil Service, that probably goes doubly for Reform. They have nobody with experience of getting the machine to do stuff. Danny Kruger never made it beyond PP… (View Post)

Partly it's the problem of having a statutory demand-led system coupled to an extremely finite pot of money. Partly it's that the mental health of the nation does seem to be getting worse. (View Post)

The thing that stands out in that graph is how stable the RefCon vote is. And, by subtraction, how flat the LLG total has been. It's all about the efficiency within the blocks. (View Post)

Optimism is a potent thing in politics. Blair has it, Boris had it. It's part of Polanski's appeal. Optimism grounded in reality would be better; BoJo's problem in government was that … (View Post)