letters to the 1922 committee vs... Labour require you to have a challenger, a nomination threshold from MPs, and then win a ballot of the membership (and affiliates) under OMOV. In other words, it’s… (View Post)

You can get to 43–44% of GDP in tax. Plenty of countries sit there. The small detail is they didn’t do it by whacking on an extra ~£130bn in one go. That’s the scale being waved around here. You’re i… (View Post)

Both? For different reasons But in this case, given @BatteryCorrectHorse's connections, I'd skew that way... However, this is a market of which I'm steering clear Once a leadership rac… (View Post)

It’s almost like the Labour rulebook is designed to make removing a leader as painful and drawn-out as possible. You don’t just get a few twitchy MPs and a bad set of results and suddenly it’s over. … (View Post)

TBH I can't recall the exact circumstances when I first encountered PB. Well before the switchover to vanilla forums/Wordpress. I recall a few election night IRC sessions, but for the life of me… (View Post)