It's a decent test of whether Farage wants to be PM, or just a Baldwinian harlot. To make the final step, he does have to surround himself with people who are capable and desirous of taking his job. … (View Post)

Which would be fine, if he had the right people behind the scenes advising him. Even if Starmer drafted the speech, someone ought to have scrawled "are you out of your (insert Tuckerism here) mi… (View Post)

Not a bad idea, one of our problems is people trapped in areas far away from prosperity. The catch is that prosperous areas don't want any incomers, whether asylum seekers, economic migrants, or peop… (View Post)

The catch is that productivity improvements are lumpy- some jobs can become ten or a hundred times more productive, others will struggle to eke out a few percent. Number wrangling in finance is way m… (View Post)

But do we? Assuming those jobs still need to be done, the consequence of that will be British workers being pushed down the value chain. That is not how most countries do it, and I'm pretty sure they… (View Post)