The "sign before Trump becomes President" line doesn't make sense to me except as a negotiation/hurry up tactic. Trump is President in a week and the UK is otherwise trying hard not to anta… (View Post)

There are infrastructure projects we are doing now which were mooted/cut during Osbornes time. Back then we could borrow much cheaper than now, and we would have had them finished by now, so would ha… (View Post)

Bizarre time for Reform to implode it seems to me. Fwiw my guess is Farage will outlast whoever Musk et Al. fall behind in British politics. He's been around a long time and knows what he is doing. (View Post)

@Benpointer Competition: 1. Lab (34%), Con (31%), LD (16%), Reform (31%) 2. Lab (21%), Con (17%), LD (8%), Reform (16%) 3. 5 4. 0 5. 2 6. 2 7. 182 8. 3.5% 9. £130.2bn 10. 2.7% 11. 2.2% 12. 1.4% 13 . … (View Post)

Lawyers are well represented in Parliament, and we have once again a legal PM. The labour cabinet has Lammy, Starmer, Mahmood as lawyers, possibly others. I'm not sure we need more tbh. (View Post)