From gov.uk: Total benefit expenditure increased from £233.8bn in FYE 2023 to £266.2bn in FYE 2024. This was an increase of £32.4bn (13.9%) which was mainly due to: *State Pension expenditure increas… (View Post)

Ha ha, very droll. Anyone can accidentally press EDIT: damn! (View Post)

There's a lot of desperation and a very large number of people who have been doing badly for a long time though, so we shall see. My instinct is that there are enough people out there who loathe Fara… (View Post)

Most of the electorate are low information, in the sense that, even if some still pay attention to the news, they spend no significant amounts of time analysing politics and policy. PB readers are no… (View Post)

What's wrong with jazz? (View Post)