10 year gilts are what 4%/year? If inflation is 2% that's a pretty low roi required for a government project to be worth it. (View Post)

Personally it's more convenient to pay in advance... means you can leave when you want rather than waiting around for ages for the bill to come... (View Post)

Starmer needs to make sure he doesn't get pushed off track, spending time focusing on these non-stories... that no one will remember in five years. What does matter is what he and Reeves do in t… (View Post)

The pigs head thing was Lord Ashcroft and Isabelle Oakshot? Genuinely never heard anything about Cameron son death - that sounds vile. (View Post)

Spot on. The best you can say for the disaster that was austerity, Osborne et al is that had Labour won in 2010 they probably would have made a similar mistake, albeit to a lesser extent. (View Post)