Good God, they've made a right dog's breakfast of that, haven't they? (View Post)

The notion that your typical twenty something struggling with, variously, enormous rents, a large student debt burden and modest wages can rustle up a socking great slab of money for a pension just b… (View Post)

A lot of renters are rescued by wealth transfer from older relatives (through gifts and inheritances) but you can't actively grow the middle class just through the transmission of inherited wealth. Y… (View Post)

I thought last year that he might get Hunt to announce a load of bribes in the Budget and then go to the country, but the Autumn Statement will do just as well (and give them a few more months in off… (View Post)

We're going to get a repetition of 2010-15, but in reverse: Labour doing austerity and blaming it on the ineptitude of the Tories. Except that the public is totally sick of austerity and unwilling to… (View Post)