And yet it still isn't being done. The truth is that social care as a profession is not something that just any untrained and demotivated oik can do, and it's enormously undervalued (and underpaid ac… (View Post)

We can't know for sure what the other parties are going to come out with until they're forced to tip their hands at the next election, but I'd agree that if Labour is offering same as Tories but with… (View Post)

Budget summary: still ramping taxes on wages not property, still no sign of an end to the triple lock (the two matters being heavily connected of course: most pensioners are also mortgage-free owner … (View Post)

More of this line of questioning for ministers please: Zinger from Sophy Ridge to Jeremy Hunt as he prepares to put up pensions by inflation while cutting the pay of public sector workers in real ter… (View Post)

Like that will help. Use sortition. Seriously. Like jury service. We've already got 650 MPs; quite why we'd want another 200, 300, 400 more (just with an alternative title to disguise the fact) is qu… (View Post)