anothernick

But it's remit could be changed to allow it differentiate between capital and current expenditure. Since Rachel Reeves has said that she intends to balance the current budget and only borrow to inves… (View Post)

Since 2010 the Tories have had two flagship policies - austerity and then Brexit. Both of these have proved ignominious failures - austerity did not reduce the public sector deficit and Brexit has pr… (View Post)

Agreed. I've only just seen the thread from yesterday when Mike announced he was going, very sad. Would be good to set up something to mark the occasion and thank him for having the idea of setting u… (View Post)

If Boris stood in a byelection the opposition vote would unite behind whichever party was best placed to beat him. And he would be crushed - he has a small band of loyalists but the vast majority of … (View Post)

That would involve a Tory MP standing down and Boris fighting a by-election. Boris would not win a by-election in any constituency in the UK at the moment. (View Post)