Difference between "ought to win" and "(currently) on track to win". If you have a certain view of politics, then a leading candidate ought to say things that are of moment, ought… (View Post)
Presumably the conspiracy theory will morph into "Sunak believed that there was about to be a VONC" or "a huge pile of letters were on the verge of being sent". Didn't JRM cheerle… (View Post)
The difficulty comes with the observation that cash is more expensive to process, and the fewer people use it the more expensive it gets. Who pays? There's a perfectly decent argument that goes "… (View Post)
And, beyond a certain point, processing cash will become more hassle than it's worth. Fewer and fewer transactions to sustain the cost of all the background infrastructure needed to make it work. (View Post)
There's an implicit assumption there that a new Conservative leader will be an improvement on the old one, popularity-wise. That's, at best, unproven. (View Post)