To be fair to the Conservatives, pretty much anything posted on X is going to get a load of replies saying how awful they are. Because there are enough people on X with that attitude, and the cost of… (View Post)

You mean apart from the almost completely full prisons, 2024 pay negotiations hidden under the mattress, wing-and-a-prayer NI cuts, councils collapsing under social care, the Afghan refugee scandal... (View Post)

Two important caveats there, though. One is that a Labour win didn't look at all on the cards until 2022 or so. Planning a manifesto to lose with dignity is different to planning a project for g… (View Post)

Sam Freedman (yes I know) was good on that in his piece on the anti-VAT campaign; https://samf.substack.com/p/the-great-vat-panic The TLDR is that campaigns against government policy work best when y… (View Post)

Good heavens, I hate those "bad things X after disliked thing Y" headlines. Implies a causal relationship, often when there isn't one. (See the third paragraph, and then remember that … (View Post)