Basically this says the country is going to go into (un)managed decline as we are doing nothing to help productivity improve. Because no matter what people in whitehall think productivity comes from … (View Post)

Rates for pubs are based on “fair maintainable turnover” - so a successful pub over a few years starts to pay more. That increase is insane but it’s a combination of the change in discount and their … (View Post)

We have to be careful as apart from the booby traps Hunt created, Rishi was a fairly competent unlike the 3 previous PMs who preceded him So while I was going to say being more competent was a low ba… (View Post)

Well Russia who are hoping for a couple of years peace to allow themselves to rearm aren’t going to want the UK and France officially in the Ukraine as it would make Russian aim of restarting the mil… (View Post)

It wasn’t and my expectations weren’t high. Heck my expectations were - reverse the stupid NI cuts, get some infrastructure built or at least started (HS2 being one simple fix) and build some homes (View Post)