Isn't 2000-2015 an aberration caused by abolishing boom and bust, then a reversion to the mean? Holding a ruler up to the graph, 1999, and 2016-2019 looks like it all more or less lies on the same st… (View Post)

It's very simple isn't it? Reform exist because the Tories created a (large) gap in the market for a plausible party of right. Reform are topping the polls because Starmer has been given an enormous … (View Post)

It's not my local patch these days (I did live fairly near there 20 years ago), but I would have thought they were in with a shout - IIRC it's got quite a lot of roughish WWC territory of the sort th… (View Post)

That sounds like James Sinclair - watching him go from being very careful to be politically neutral to basically "this government is insane, why do they want to destroy small businesses" ov… (View Post)

AWS is about as "selling shovels" as its possible to get, absent a shovel shop. (View Post)