The attempt to take property out of local Government funding was an interesting one and not wholly without merit. The single person in the big house was, it was argued, a lesser use of Council Servic… (View Post)

Morning all :) It's an interesting discussion - not Truss of course - but the truth that Margaret Thatcher of all people introduced tax rises (VAT) in 1981 while reducing direct taxation (income… (View Post)

Just worth noting almost all of that growth in the public sector has been in central Government - more than half a million since 2019. :Local Government headcount has been almost static (a very small… (View Post)

All that means is a larger minority voted for Labour than voted Conservative, Liberal Democrat, Reform, Green or whatever. It doesn't invalidate or reduce Starmer's mandate one iota - if we… (View Post)

That's hardly insight. It's basically what Blair did in 1997 and Cameron in 2010 (the "Big Society" anyone?). Stodge's Seventh Law of Politics states the truth may sometimes … (View Post)