Relative to most of the rest of Europe, this is a low tax economy. The reason why taxation as a share of national wealth is higher than it has been for many decades is basically down to the country b… (View Post)

If they're thinking like that, they're bloody mental. Having your party reduced to a rump and handing your opponents the opportunity to stack the electoral system against you is not the way to achiev… (View Post)

You've just identified the correct means to solve the problem of the gap between taxation and day-to-day Government spending, if you're committed not to slashing spending. Higher taxes. The Truss pro… (View Post)

Just as with the rise of Jeremy Corbyn, this is what happens when you let the party members have the final say over the leadership: instead of the choice at least being that of the elected representa… (View Post)

Yep, they've given up. The British people are now so many helpless passengers on a doomed flight; the Conservative Party membership being the drunk, suicidal pilot at the controls. (View Post)