What an epic mess. I like Timms. He seems to spent decades being a welfare minister or shadow minister. It's not his mess. This is Reeves. (View Post)

Oh, so edgy. Totally radical. How can they lose? Yet Nick Clegg said same thing ten or more years ago: Zia Yusuf @ZiaYusufUK · 3h Reform will fight for those who set their alarm clocks. ⏰ https://x.c… (View Post)

He said something about ordinary people who were "alarm clock Britain" getting up in the dark iirc. t'interweb seems to say dated 2011. (View Post)

Robert Peston @Peston Here is the scale of the government’s humiliation tonight. A week ago Downing St was warning any Labour MP who was thinking of not voting for the welfare reform that they would … (View Post)

It's deeply sad in a way. An era is passing. There is an increasing sense of a long withdrawing melancholy. Social democracy is ending at least for a good long time as, it also seems, is softish one … (View Post)