The problem with the Truss energy subsidies (as noted on here many times) wasn't primarily that she doled out loads of government cash to pay the bills. It was that she did so in such a dumb way… (View Post)

If they do this, it's a gift to Farage. It will confirms what most of his supporters have long suspected, that the civil service is institutionally soft left, and has worked to frustrate that ai… (View Post)

In fairness, I think there definitely is a breed of wife who is supprisingly incurious about things financial. I know, because I have one. She did accounting and finance at uni, then was an incident … (View Post)

Surely at least part the trick is to heavily align incentives e.g. pay all through the system, down to small site manager level and cost control. Come in substantially under budget, ££ muchly. Spend … (View Post)

That's not true. It all depends on the FPTP vote efficiency. If you have 5 parties on an average of 20% each, then mathematically possible outcomes include: 1) Each party gets 100% of the vote i… (View Post)