And housing is the other side of this. The reason I've been able to afford to teach is that I started buying a house in 2002, and largely locked in the cost of accommodation a few years later. Flip k… (View Post)
And did it really make that much difference who was on the list, anyway? Sian Berry doesn't strike me as that much of a draw. I'm sure there were voters who check the names on the lists, but I'm pret… (View Post)
But public sector organisations can't offer the going rate, in part for fear of appearing in a Taxpayers' Alliance hate piece. But also because the total pay pot isn't big enough.That's especially tr… (View Post)
And the Hall campaign had a relentless "two horse race" squeeze message with a totemic policy issue (cut ULEZ). With her target voters, it worked, no point saying otherwise. Whether that ap… (View Post)
Not that far off 1997 (43-31). If you offered that to Rishi and Keir, I wonder who would be first to bite your hand off? Though the other way of looking at it is that the Conservatives need to squash… (View Post)