Heh, yes a very interesting person. A little bit cerebral and forbidding at times, but also very humane, I think, looking at his output. (View Post)

I always think of Starmer's, pretty good, conference joke, the other year, whenever we return to this topic. "My father was a toolmaker, and so, in a different way, was Boris Johnson's… (View Post)

The Oxfurd University Migration Observatory did a good study on this a while back. There are whole swathes of the economy where non-EU workers have replaced EU ones. Accommodation, retail, transport … (View Post)

I agree that Reform are Farage, but if the Tories keep refusing to challenge him, they will become his party, whether unofficially or officially. He is the key force behind a large part of what has h… (View Post)

I think the only way for the Tories to survive might actually to be allow the hard right to move to Reform, and start to confront Farage on issues like his responsibility for hard Brexit and high imm… (View Post)