Which is fair enough. But then you have a car and therefore the choice of when to use it. On the other hand, if you don't have a car but live in a rural village, or live in the suburbs but work a 5am… (View Post)

Funnily enough, I'm just reading a book on MMT, called the Deficit Myth, which argues exactly this. I though it'd be useful to understand MMT before criticising it. Blimey, it's superficial. It runs … (View Post)

No, practice is that a PM has the right to meet parliament if he or she wants to. If it was 'biggest first gets first dibs' then Brown would have resigned on the Friday. He didn't because he wanted t… (View Post)

The SDP is still around, though is Reform Light these days and, if it has any sense (which is doubtful given it *has* kept going so long), will fold into it soon enough. But the Liberal-SDP alliance … (View Post)

He wouldn't have to. That's not how it works. If that was the result of the election then Starmer remains PM until he either resigns, loses a Confidence vote in the House or is replaced as Labour lea… (View Post)