Evening all :) I'm interested in a couple of barbed comments on public sector productivty which, we are told, is 5.7% lower than pre-pandemic. This was Jeremy Hunt from his speech to the Centre … (View Post)

Evening all :) I'm not sure I agree with all of @Malmesbury's header. The point about social workers needs clarification - the meticulous and necessary recording of conversations and meetin… (View Post)

Sometimes the leader becomes the personification and the focus of the anger rather than the Party. Major, for example, took the burden of the anger of the electorate willingly and did so in order to … (View Post)

Also known as Short Stay Schools - they are for those permanently excluded from the main school system. In some areas they are a direct provision of the local authority - in others they are like acad… (View Post)

We know though at most only a third of the Reform vote would return to the Conservatives. About one sixth would vote Labour and half would stay at home if Reform decided not to fight the next electio… (View Post)