You're right on the first point but retired people exacerbate the effect of the NI upper threshold because they don't pay NI at all. And there aren't many poor pensioners around nowadays, halving pen… (View Post)

Yes indeed, UK vaccination levels are not exactly dire yet but they are certainly stagnating. France and Italy have already surpassed us in terms of shots per head of population and are still current… (View Post)

Your strategy won't work. To target a mere 7 seats when you only have 1 would be seen as an admission of defeat. It would make things worse, not better. Labour has to aspire to recover a majority of … (View Post)

The idea that building a modest number of homes in rural areas will "concrete them over" is risible. Increasing the size of a village from say 40 to 50 houses all still within the village, … (View Post)

On topic, I used to know Old Bexley and Sidcup quite well, having been brought up there for 18 years, attended Longlands Primary and Chis and Sid, listened to my long departed (Conservative voting) M… (View Post)