johnt

Why? Whatever people think of foreign aid the Tories committed to maintain the 0.7 % of gdp as part of their election manifesto less than a year ago. What is mad about refusing to break your commitme… (View Post)

Fair point but there is an important point of principle which the Tories seem to have lost. You need to think really hard before you break manifesto comments. They did not need to ring fence overseas… (View Post)

Fair point, but I am not convinced that was Brown’s real purpose. He was after the large surpluses in company pension schemes. At the time he acted far more people were in companies with final salary… (View Post)

I do find it ironic that the right always talk of aspiration and success being a great thing until someone they don’t like is successful when it becomes disgusting. (View Post)

Given that Conservative MPs stood on a manifesto to sign Johnsons withdrawal agreement, won, signed it and then passed a law to say they wouldn’t follow it I suspect they may be more willing to compl… (View Post)