The counterfactual is a continuity Major-Clarke goverment so that's irrelevant, even if true. (View Post)

We won't achieve Dutch levels of fragmentation until we get incomprehensible names like L25 or Article 10. (View Post)

That's such a simplistic analysis. There isn't a linear sliding scale where more regulation = good and less regulation = bad. It's possible to overlook systemic issues while also havin… (View Post)

It still beggars belief that we bought into the US group think on the mortage debt when we had very recent experience of a house price crash right here, and especially in the south east. 25% house pr… (View Post)

How? Ken Clarke would have kept control of interest rates and would have raised taxes during the 97-01 term. The bubble was all on Brown and Blair. (View Post)