But an awful lot of voters want lower taxes. Possilbly to the extent of not caring if the state crumbles around them as a result. If not that, being very insistent that the correlation between income… (View Post)

Worse even than that- council tax is very difficult to increase. If it's a district, the practical cap is 3%. If it's a county or unitary, it's 5%. If you want to go beyond that, you e… (View Post)

Lucky old Durham. (View Post)

Suspect that the cuts to the courts were dumber- you can have as many police as you like catching alleged crims, but if you can't try them and punish them in with a reasonably fast turnaround, w… (View Post)

Would it though? Ghastly as many politicians are, they've done a reasonable job of giving us a fairly good representation of what we collectively say we want. HOSPITALS, schools, no increases in… (View Post)