Reform is not a complete substitute, I am afraid, for redistribution. You can find the money to at least make a start on repairing the state and dealing with the vast problems of ill health and impov… (View Post)

A Labour politician advocating for near-total replication of Conservative economic policy. If being not actually a Tory is enough for most people then it won't make any difference. If a significant f… (View Post)

Classic short termism, once again. Mass immigration makes every problem it is intended to resolve worse, either immediately (pressure on public services from a larger population) or in the longer ter… (View Post)

As we all appreciate by now, there's nothing idiosyncratic about the Triple Lock. It's a one-way ratchet that's custom built to ensure that increases in pensioner incomes outstrip wage inflation, and… (View Post)

OTOH one would like to think that Britain doesn't have a large enough pool of furious hard right voters to make a force like the MAGA Republicans viable as a party of majority government. No gun cult… (View Post)