No, this is a new problem. Go back pre-1945 and the elderly burden didn't exist because, quite beside the fact that the modern welfare state hadn't been invented, life expectancy was lower and a lowe… (View Post)

Older voters constitute most of the burden on the state and hold most of the wealth, which they furiously resent being touched. "But I paid my taxes!" will be written on the tombstone of th… (View Post)

Not spending more money (or pretending not to: a hypothetical new Tory government wouldn't last very long before having to open the taps again for the NHS, they're too reliant on the grey vote,) also… (View Post)

Most of the Christian responses will be cultural. Nominal C of E, never go near a church except for weddings and funerals. We inhabit one of the most irreligious polities on the face of the Earth. (View Post)

Or resignation. Or disengagement. Hard to be enthusiastic if you think you're going to be voted out in a few weeks, if that's what a combination of this disastrous campaign and intelligence from what… (View Post)