They're basically lobbyists for rich people who don't want to pay tax. Plus wreckers in the current government by vetoing badly needed increased borrowing. (View Post)

OK there's a long way to go, but this does remind me of all those posts during the last parliament saying the Conservatives would be fine because their voters had gone to "don't know", and … (View Post)

ooh that makes things complicated. if only I didn't have 'Western liberal guilt' I would naturally be a racist who hates immigrants. otoh as an immigrant, if I was guilt-free I'd have to hate myself.… (View Post)

To go from about 35% or west german GDP per capita to about 80% is still a huge improvement, surely much bigger than anything in the UK. The main reason it has stalled recently is because of the lowe… (View Post)

OTOH, Germany has been more successful in closing the gap between east and west, than the UK has been in closing the gap between richer and poorer regions in the UK. (View Post)