The feed the aspiration to retire. As will Labour when they get in. This is the point at which I remind the site once again that pensioner incomes after taking account of housing costs exceed those o… (View Post)

It's only the electoral system that's keeping either of the main parties afloat. Of course, there could be a repeat of something akin to the SNP eruption in England, but there's no sign of it as yet.… (View Post)

Yeah pretty much, but it's all lies of course. It doesn't matter who people vote for, they will get the same policies - which, broadly speaking, are: 1. We don't want to raise taxes on people who can… (View Post)

Nobody with any power to improve the lot of poor people places like this is interested in doing so. The value of Rochdale and other such places, as far as they're concerned, is as somewhere to dump a… (View Post)

Next up: wholly fictitious election manifestos from both the Tories and Labour, in which they pretend that the problem doesn't exist. (View Post)