The UK is effectively borrowing money from foreign countries so that UK people can have holidays in foreign countries. The UK had a trade surplus when international travel was much reduced during cov… (View Post)

Many public sector workers have had their earning power degraded over a number of years, due to a government believing you can run a country without paying its employees a competitive wage. This is c… (View Post)

Malt vinegar = working class Balsamic vinegar = affluent working class Apple cider vinegar 'with the mother' = middle class (View Post)

Starmer's idea of 'most people' is, I suspect, rather different to most people's idea of 'most people'. But perhaps not too different to Ed Miliband's 'common people of Dartmouth Park'. (View Post)

Wouldn't surprise me, after all Gerhard Schroeder became a willing Russian asset at some point. Merkel also had 35 years of 'Russia is good, the West is bad' propaganda fed to her. We're regularly to… (View Post)