I think we forget that most people don't care about politics so outside an election it can take weeks / months for events to actually impact polls. For instance I do think a lot of people don�… (View Post)

If you get £35,000 a year and can't cope with a £300 cut in income you've got bigger problems to deal with. The actual reason I asked the question was because I wanted to emphasis that the … (View Post)

In making cuts that are so obviously bad that a fix will be found we have Jodrell bank being closed https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y6r9rdxygo (View Post)

Thatcher was a scientist - she grasped the issue immediately because she understood what was going on. Most politicians are not scientists and regard science as either magic they don't understan… (View Post)

Not a clue but the course was supposed to have 12 people on it and had 6 with no Americans there and there had always been Americans on it before (it's what made running the course viable). (View Post)