Some facts about retirement from the ONS: The average retirement age in the UK is 66. There are approximately 11 million people aged 65 and above in the UK, accounting for around 16% of the overall p… (View Post)

Conservative Governments have also raised taxes. They may not do it as overtly as Labour but you're not telling me the freezing of personal allowances is anything other than a tax rise for those drag… (View Post)

I've seen Farage has said he doesn't want any new Reform councillors elected on May 1st to go into joint administrations with any other party. The practicalities of governance are going to force the … (View Post)

Afternoon all :) Labour's "exposure" in three weeks time is nowhere near that of the Conservatives in terms of seats held and potential losses. On a quick count of the County Councils due t… (View Post)

In terms of what the Coalition’s “austerity” meant on the ground, over a million local Government jobs went - not in education but across the range of other Services provided by councils which suffer… (View Post)