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At this point, I’d rather a government lowers/abolishes the personal allowance rather than increase income tax. It’s been a de facto tax rise for years no, practiced by both Tory and Labour. This is exactly the thing that this Labour government would, completely slippery people. The electorate...

In fairness to Streeting, No. 10 has kicked off the briefings war and has been hostile to many cabinet ministers.

Houses are being built, just at a slower rate than net migration. Likewise, more arrivals require more hospitals, roads, schools and so on. That’s a v basic principle that the electorate understands. Far from being a myth, it’s a reality that resonates with the majority of voters. The failure to...

If you build 200k houses a year and net migration is 350k and above… where are these new arrivals being housed? Again, all housebuilding targets are premised on net migration being 300k and simultaneously, not meeting housing targets and net migration significantly higher than 300k per annum...

It really isn’t. The public have been voting for lower immigration, they got consistently got the opposite. Labour and Tories made promises and didn’t keep them. The polling @chiefdave shows you exactly where their support is coming from; disaffected Tories, ‘small c’ conservative working class...

Class! Lampard’s record here speaks for itself and he’s had 40+ games and averaging around 2 points per game. This despite a relatively slow start and poor away form towards the end of the season. The hype is real and we’ll know exactly where we are in a few games time.

To answer my own question, they haven’t anything specifically. These are policies introduced by Sunak’s government. On polling: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/trackers/do-brits-think-that-immigration-has-been-too-high-or-low-in-the-last-10-years?period=6m Would you support or oppose a...

I’m enjoying that you’re saying this with no irony whatsoever. If you want to continue believing Reeves is “Thatcherite”, crack on mate. I won’t break that delusion.

I nearly spat out my coffee seeing Rachel Reeves described as “Thatcherite”. Ultimately, this government is in a mess because it’s massively increased spending and borrowing without a plan to pay for it. The tax rises in the last budget was highest tax raids in decades and it’s still not enough...

That isn’t their platform at all. The polling data shared on here shows that they cut through on other issues. Comments like yours show just how disconnected many people on the left are in relation to understanding why people support Reform. Have they? What policies have they implemented that...

Agreed. However, there is one massive exception where immigration is absolutely increasing costs: housing provision. The average cost of a house is 9x the average salary. You’d have to go back to the 19th century to find a time it was less expensive. It’s not all about immigration, but when...

I’m mulling over my options too. I originally planned to do the whole month but financially, that’s not viable. Germany last year was a great jolly being out for the whole month. Equally, what I’d spent there is roughly a 1/3 of what you’d expect for a month in the US. Easily a £8-12k trip...

These are the people that are in competition with low income migrants so they’ve put 2+2 together and made the link between mass immigration and cost of living. Indeed. The Labour Party and indeed wider trade union movement had generally been “right wing” on immigration by today’s standards...

Not at all, far from breaking up the Union, Brexit was implicitly saved it. The nationalists in Scotland and Wales can’t credibly argue that they’ll join the EU because that would mean hard borders with England. Which is just not realistic. NI will probably be lost, with or without Brexit.

Published in 2020, I liked it but Paul Embery was my gateway drug to more conservative thinking. https://amzn.eu/d/d6MuJO9 Labour needs Scottish MPs to form a majority government, it makes total sense for them to ‘save the union’. In the 2010s, Labour got caught in the middle of 2 great big...

The Labour Party is from a bygone era. Back in Blair’s years you had genuinely working class MPs who were generally small ‘c’ conservative socially but economically socialist. The takeover of the Labour Party by the metropolitan elite has its downfall. I strongly doubt the Brexit voting blue...

Have you never heard the saying that ‘all political careers end in failure?’ I never knew that it was Enoch Powell who apparently first coined that phrase.

Ironically, Starmer is the most dishonest of the lot. Who do you trust? Polanski? Davey? Corbyn? The same Ed Davey that served Cameron’s coalition and a party that reneged on its flagship policy in the election. If you trust any politician, irrespective of what colour rosette they way on...

There are some things you see the headline on and know to just not click and view. … Probably a reflex from the rickrolling from my teen years and the more NSFW pranks.

Typical Stoke-on-Trent humour, unintelligible nonsense. I love that we’ve nicked two late wins against Stoke and Robins.