The other counterpoint is to look at January to February 2020, when Brexit was Done and COVID was still an unpleasant bit of foreign news. Johnson's government was a blooming shambles then as we… (View Post)

In government, getting what they want. So by definition, there can't be overreach. (View Post)

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)