Nationalising Thames Water would be utterly moronic*. They have borrowed too much money. Their owners therefore should be left with nothing, and, congratulations to their creditors, you now own a wat… (View Post)

It's possible, and indeed pretty reasonable, to think that Starmer is a scummy idiot (no shortage of evidence for that!), and also think that Burnham is very likely to be a downgrade (most of th… (View Post)

Other things too. "... One toaster for me... One toaster for Nic... One toaster for the SNP HQ... Three gold pens for me... Two gold pens for Nic... One for the SNP HQ..." (View Post)

If Burnham loses and SKS dies laughing, that solves both problems at once - a vacancy is created in No10, and the largest ego in the known world remains unable to fill it. Win - win I suppose. (View Post)

Surely the situation in which the Tory party finds itself is somewhat Sui Generis. If you told IDS or Hague in the early 2000s that they could have a Labour government languishing at around 20% in th… (View Post)