I think it is about public vs private actually. Public housebuilding has collapsed. The scale we need cannot be left to the private sector. They can't afford to take on massively risky projects.… (View Post)

On the generational angst, so much of it just boils down to housing. I really feel like a govt which prioritised building houses themselves, not relying on developers, and keeping social housing publ… (View Post)

£5bn out of a tax gap of £36bn doesn't seem crazy unrealistic to me. Notable also that she is promising to fund HMRC to have more tax officers. (View Post)

I think wise to view war as almost always a bad idea, and it's a little ridiculous how keen some people are on it when they've no experience of how terrible it is, particularly for the civi… (View Post)

The EU would have been happy enough with the Clarke compromise or something like it. It's a bit much to just expect Labour to vote for a policy they hate without any compromise because a Tory le… (View Post)