Come on, you're a Conservative and she's a Labour Chancellor. I don't expect you would "like" her - is there a Labour Chancellor you have liked? I thought Alastair Darling was very good and… (View Post)

Evening all :) While you've been talking about God knows what, I've been doing some politics and had a chat a party leader this afternoon. No, not Kemi, Ed or even Zack but Mehmood. Yes, that Mehmood… (View Post)

In my time in local Government, I met and dealt with plenty of social workers and I had a friend who was a Housing Officer in a London Borough. Some of the stories they told about the people they enc… (View Post)

Morning all :) The modern media cycle has changed how Government is reported and how politics, as a result, functions. I suspect there has always been instability in Government, disputes, turf wars, … (View Post)

Yes, the rates relief from which the hospitality industry has benefited, was never going to last forever. It's a useful source of income to which councils have been denied but it's swings and roundab… (View Post)