There are District Councils (Woking and Spelthorne to name but two) who are pretty much bankrupt even without social care costs. The social care "black hole" will still exist as will as the… (View Post)

Morning all :) First, thank you for the header, @GarethoftheVale2 - a thought provoking and insightful piece. Very hard to argue with the analysis and the conclusions - I'd argue it hasn't … (View Post)

I didn't follow the debate on here that closely yesterday. We need to look at alternatives to incarceration simply because the prisons are full - now, we can all have a lot of fun trying to work… (View Post)

One or two interesting nuggets from the overnight local council by elections. Very low turnouts in most contests - 15-25%. Labour doing as badly as you'd expect an unpopular incumbent Government… (View Post)

Of course - the point was Labour didn't do as well in either election as you might have expected given the party's traditional strength in the capital and apparently huge opinion poll leads… (View Post)