Nor would I. The fundamentals haven't changed: the unionist vote is split and the anti-unionist vote isn't. The SNP core vote have nowhere else to go. (View Post)

OTOH the Chief Constable of Essex has been complaining that pay for his rank and file is now so rubbish that they've been quitting to sell double glazing or work on building sites. Though I suppose m… (View Post)

Disagree. Generous state pensions ought, in theory, to be perfectly affordable. The reason they aren't is that the wealthier codgers won't accept the quid pro quo, which is that everyone's asset weal… (View Post)

The biggest problem with devolution wasn't the fact that it happened in the first place, but the incompetence of the execution - and Labour and the Tories must now be regarded as equally culpable, gi… (View Post)

A programme of managed decline, in which the remaining wealth in the economy continues to be redistributed from working people to the retired. It's what the Conservatives are for, but will Labour do … (View Post)