The charges of timidity laid against Starmer and Reeves are exactly the same ones levelled at Blair and Brown in the mid-90s. Mandelson was fairly influential then as well and the analogy used by Roy… (View Post)

It is of course desperately sad to see Mike Freer being apparently forced out by death threats and we don't want another Jo Cox or David Amess let alone what happened to Stephen Timms and Nigel … (View Post)

Evening all :smile: The 2021 Census had 46% Christian, 37% No Religion and 6.5% Muslim yet it's apparently the end of democracy. That's like saying the latest opinion poll shows the Liberal… (View Post)

Yes, capitalisation - the "get out of jail free" card to a point. The problem with capital budgets for local authorities is they aren't reliable and there's so many projects on th… (View Post)

Evening all :) As I'm several days behind the curve, I thought I'd offer this: In 2010, the incoming Coalition Government loosened the financial constraints under which Councils previously … (View Post)