I would love to understand from the people who settled at 80% of salary how that figure was reached. 80% when you can’t actually do anything always seemed excessive and helped fuel some very negative… (View Post)

They got a lot wrong. But the one I find particularly hard to convince myself of is that the UK could have avoided lockdown entirely. If you recall the political, media and public mood at the time, i… (View Post)

I don’t think Streeting will be losing any sleep about mixing up some years in a tweet that accused the government of being insensitive and tone deaf around their behaviour in lockdown. The governmen… (View Post)

Whenever we get into the FON debate I always flag that they were one of the closest to getting the REF share right in the previous local elections. Does that mean I hold them up as gospel? No. But I … (View Post)

On polling generally, it feels like the CON-to-REF attrition has stopped at least for the time being. That’s lead to both parties plateau-ing. Time will tell if that process will start up again but f… (View Post)