I suspect that's because Youth Unemployment in the UK is converging on the higher rates that exist elsewhere in Europe. Remember Youth unemployment in Italy / Spain / Portugal often hits 40% plu… (View Post)

The problem Starmer has is that Labour needed to hit the ground running in July 2024 and they arrived utterly unprepared looking like a rabbit caught in the headlamp of a fast approaching car... (View Post)

ID cards are not a bad idea, in Antalya yesterday every German / Pole in front on me at checkin was travelling with one. The issue is attaching them to everything - but the idea of a single card you … (View Post)

For a chance of being elected it's needs to be a massive Labour majority with demographics that are 50/50 WWC (tending Reform) and wealthy (so tending Green) - to split the anti-Labour vote. The… (View Post)

FPT The problem with a council tax revaluation is that the manpower to actually do a revaluation doesn't exist. the fix has to be based on sale prices attached to removal of stamp duty - but for… (View Post)