How many of them expected to win, let alone be part of the governing party? Something something blow the bloody doors off. (View Post)

Totally get it. And how to balance efficiency and humanity, cost-benefit and niceness, civilization (in the Clark sense) and the need to do enough work to pay for it... It's a tricky question. A… (View Post)

Social care already is means tested, isn't it? As for the rest, healthcare for working people is pretty cheap, because most don't really need any. The people whose healthcare is expensive t… (View Post)

And that's the problem. Politically, this is democracy working as it should. Government does something, gets hideous negative feedback, reverses it. That feedback may be stupid or ill-informed. … (View Post)

Given the amount of hot air Farage emits, it's a surprise that he thinks we need the coal as well. (Really, it's part of nostalgia for half-remembered good times, isn't it? And it'… (View Post)