Its a good time to be skilled working class northerner. Not so good to be a young graduate in the south. (View Post)

Unemployed 1,292,000 Job vacancies 1,288,000 The effect on pay rises and business investment will be interesting. And despite the best employment situation since anyone can remember there will be end… (View Post)

Melanchon vs Le Pen would be an astonishing rejection of the political centre and establishment. (View Post)

Which suggests Le Pen voters are more committed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_French_presidential_election#/media/File:%C3%89lection_pr%C3%A9sidentielle_fran%C3%A7aise_de_2017_T1_carte_d%C3%A9p… (View Post)

It is perhaps revealing that he declares that he 'now pays his full share'. For those of us on PAYE we don't get a choice in whether we pay or not. (View Post)