The most valuable human asset is the one who does what you want without any input or control on your part. (View Post)

Reform's problem in a nutshell. The things that energise the party (boats, taxes, woke) mostly don't map onto the duties of local councils. And those councils have minimal political discretion anyway… (View Post)

See also the FDP in Germany. There's a gap in the market, but probably not a market in the gap for a free-standing party. What has changed is that socially and economically liberal types used to find… (View Post)

Going back to the header, part of the problem was the things that were cut in 2010. A lot of the austerity was done through capital spending, maintenance, local councils and squeezing public sector p… (View Post)

Counterpoint: Had Donald or Liz been freeer to do what they wanted, that would have been worse. (View Post)