Où est la masse de manœuvre? Aucune. The only reason Starmer got the Labour leadership, and then the Premiership, was the lack of someone else. That still basically applies. (View Post)

Up to a point. However, I'm pretty sure that the problem are deeper-rooted than that. It's been a problem going back at least as far as Lawson. Yes, the budget balanced pretty well in the late 80s, b… (View Post)

Quite possibly, yes. Which is part of our collective problem. (Really, we want someone who understands both high finance and normal people, and they seem to be inversely correlated.) (View Post)

Hardly sarcastic. It was one of the comfort blankets that BoJo apologists held onto during the trauma of 2022. "Boris may have been tricked into saying something untrue, he may have technically … (View Post)

Usual three options: 1 replace fuel duty with another tax on vehicle use of that sort of scale 2 replace fuel duty with £3000 per household or so of other taxes 3 find £3000 per household or so of sp… (View Post)