Stuartinromford

1. Public opinion fetishises Doctors and Hospitals. (BoJo's 40 New Hospitals, for example.) Freeing up hospital capacity in the way you suggest is seen as cheating. 2. A lot on the right are getting … (View Post)

Not that incredible. Reeves, like Starmer, isn't great and may not be up to the task that faces her. That's not to say that some of the criticisms are nasty sneering from people sulking about being l… (View Post)

That's the elephant in the room here. Blair could splash a certain amount of cash, because his fiscal inheritance from Major was pretty good. Cameron could get away with a certain amount of squeezing… (View Post)

For a long time, one of the bits of gaffer tape holding the Conservatives together was "we don't like each other, but we hate Socialists more". We're still seeing that. One manifestation is… (View Post)

One of the ways that the political right has decayed in recent decades. The old (patrician, somewhat snobbish) right line was "we think the left is well-meaning but mistaken, whereas they haven'… (View Post)