Tosh. It's disgusting because of what it proposed doing to people. And it has involved the UK government knowingly passing a law that says that up is down, even if new evidence comes to light. It's l… (View Post)
The triple lock can't carry on forever, sure. But equally, means testing the state pension creates bad consequences; why bother saving if the government is going to claw back your prudence? So the ba… (View Post)
Which self are you thinking of? Yousaf reminds me of Jim Hacker. Not ill-meaning, but not there because anyone really thought he was up to the job. It's just that one of his rivals for the leadership… (View Post)
Possible that he had an arrangement with the whips. Same goes for TMexPM, who also didn't vote on the Rwanda bill. (303 Conservatives voted for, 172 Labour against. So there was clearly some pairing,… (View Post)
The irony of 2019 onwards (and probably 2016 itself). The people who voted for it may have been largely nationalists, hoping for some version of a nationalist project. But the people at the top were … (View Post)