But we return to Leon's previous point. Would Ukraine be in the mess it is now if it had a huge stockpile of strategic nuclear weapons, ready to exterminate all life in Russia the nanosecond that it … (View Post)

And can you blame people for being desperate to join the property circus at almost any price? What's the alternative, working until you drop down dead of exhaustion to keep paying the rent? For most … (View Post)

https://twitter.com/robfordmancs/status/1575409454425808897 In an odd coincidence, I've been reading Kwasi Kwarteng's "Ghosts of Empire" (which is really good, highly recommended). One of t… (View Post)

Bluntly put, the members and their canvassing are worth jack shit if your party is going to be wiped out regardless of how many leaflets it puts through doors. Putting a tiny clique of the nation's m… (View Post)

You can't run an economy based on property speculation. Sooner or later it was all going to go to shit - the one saving grace is that it looks like it's going to happen on the watch of the same party… (View Post)