Salient enough for Her Majesty's opposition to put Brexit in their 1983 manifesto. It was a blooming stupid manifesto, but that's not the point. (View Post)

Worse than Blair, a lot worse than Thatcher, but about par for the course in the 21st century; https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/data-visualisation/ministerial-resignations-outside-reshuffles… (View Post)

Theory: what did for Dom really was that Downing Street garden press conference. Not so much for the stupid stuff he said, as the fey way he said it. He stopped being menacing then. If you want to be… (View Post)

At the moment, the key thing is that nobody knows anything. Even the "reduced growth forecast" is a bit misleading; All of the disappointment happened in 2024, though, so this is in no way … (View Post)

How could it be otherwise? Money is a generalised ability to buy stuff. If it's the game you are interested in playing, why not use your money to buy the tools to acquire power, and then use you… (View Post)