Oh absolutely, the Conservatives have no incentive to do anything to stem house price inflation at all. The Tory core vote consists of minted elderly homeowners and their expectant late middle aged h… (View Post)

Many aged homeowners are probably quite happy to recycle their old newspapers, buy fair trade produce and perhaps ride a bicycle. Try putting up a wind turbine within ten miles of their pile of fanta… (View Post)

The polls can only tell us so much. The polls insisted that Theresa May was going to win a landslide until about three weeks before the 2017 election, and we all know what actually happened. I'll be … (View Post)

Quite. And that's no changing, at least not any time soon. We could argue ad infinitum about how much of the problem of intergenerational equity is the fault of the already wealthy using their contro… (View Post)

Probably because Labour will simply point out that the figures don't take account of the big increase in economically inactive people sitting on their arses - which the Government can hardly critique… (View Post)