£500 times 70 million people is £35 billion. Even £500 times 20 million households in £10 billion. If there were that much cash down the back of the sofa, Rachel Reeves would still be popular. There&… (View Post)

We just have to listen carefully if Andy B talks of going to see "my MF". (View Post)

Partly boring incremental squeezing, but perhaps mostly reductions in the flows into southern Europe during 2024/5. https://bsky.app/profile/sundersays.bsky.social/post/3mqyomkeqn22t (Which I've… (View Post)

One of the successes of the last couple of years has been ensuring that prisons didn't blow up- which wasn't a given at the end of the Sunak government. It's the kind of thing that som… (View Post)

Not sure it was surprising, though. The splits within the left bloc and right bloc were (and are) an important part of the story, and part of Starmer's failure was not throwing enough bones to h… (View Post)