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No, the job vacancies and payrolls declining simultaneously is a direct impact of Labour’s policy. Reform had a similar policy, albeit increased employers NI applied to non-UK workers only, and this was derided (rightly so imo) as a dumb policy. It’s a job tax. It significantly increased...

Also, the ONS: https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/bulletins/earningsandemploymentfrompayasyouearnrealtimeinformationuk/september2025#:~:text=2.-,Payrolled%20employees,over%20the%2012%2Dmonth%20period. The ONS is also being probed for its data...

Where to even start? To state the obvious, we need economic growth. Two areas to focus on: Energy. We have the most expensive energy in the western world and cutting the green levies and VAT on energy would be a good start to help ‘immediately’. Helps with household bills and helps...

The Blairite ideal of making everything ‘independent’ was a historic mistake. Ministers are barely responsible for anything now and ultimately, that needs to change. The OBR for example, is a terrible forecaster yet everyone is to pretend what they say is gospel.

Under the Tories in the 2010s, government spending still steadily increased. Likewise, Labour welfare ‘cuts’ was just slowing down the increase in spending. “Real austerity” would mean actually cutting government spending rather than stymying the spending increases. If interest rates get past...

This is summarises my situation too. I moved back home in Feb to finishing saving for a house (non-deposit stuff) and looking at my ‘mock’ bills,l to run a house, it’s comfortably 35-45% of my take home salary. Interest rates of 6-8% are relatively normal and when rates look like they’d get...

No, I’m being childish and mocking @shmmeee for stating that it was the RW press peddling the idea that the PM was in a bad spot. As it happens, information that interested me on this topic was from mostly centrist/left leaning sources.

How is this verified? A YouGov poll in America found most respondents believe Kirk’s killer was a Republican which isn’t true. The reason people think this is because you have MSNBC, CNN and other networks that are either a) obfuscating or b) wilfully misleading people on the killer’s motives...

Look at the cost of housing… assets have ballooned so not only are houses difficult for ordinary people to buy, they’re also spending record %s of their income on maintaining a house. I’m finalising a purchase of a house and my deposit was significantly more than my mum’s mortgage for the...

Right wing press peddling “disinformation”…

Not ‘likely true’, it is true. Some of the reactions on both sides is pretty bad. The amount of people ‘outed’ for celebrating a death, particularly the college kid chanting ‘we got Charlie in the neck’ over a megaphone is disgusting. Most people on the right have called for calm, quoting...

I waited until the reports came out that the killer had carvings on bullets to make a judgement. The motives were pretty explicit. If a prominent left wing figure was gunned down and there were bullets carved with ‘hey commie - catch!’ My first reaction is that the guy is a deranged right...

I read that and from the offset, it was a narrative that didn’t make sense. Particularly, after it was revealed he had a trans partner. Something the article skimmed over and to me, strikes me as something edited into the article after the initial drafts. If someone carved ‘hey fascist, catch!’...

Look harder, the texts between him and his roommate have published for all the news publications to sift over. In terms of UK sources, the Telegraph are reporting this and some of the quotes used are from there. Definitely not an AI overview!

Tyler Robinson appeared in front of a judge today. Investigators confirmed the following points: 1. Casing engraving meant the obvious rather than sarcastic references/insults used by the ‘gopher’ crowd. Specifically, ‘notices bulge uwu’ was a reference to being attracted to pre-transition...

Turns out the murderer was indeed a radical transactivist. All the people peddling the implausible idea he was a far right ‘gropher’ have been proved wrong.

Which ironically, kind of proves the point I was making. No, to be much more direct, cabinets need to be able to call upon people who have a diverse range of experiences. The Tory cabinets full of oxbridge-educated career politicians/city-boys wasn’t a good mix either. However, the Tories did...

Interesting comment for you to make. Surely you should understood my point rather than make out I was saying public sector workers do not have ‘real experience’. If you think a cabinet of ex-city workers who all went to oxbridge, perhaps you’d think similarly of a cabinet made up of...

It’s irrelevant to the point I was making. The Labour cabinet has very narrow experiences which makes them fundamentally ill-equipped to address certain issues the country has. Take, for example, the increase in employer’s NI. It’s had v predictable impacts i.e. employers either; freeze hiring...

Facetious responses. Teachers running education, or healthcare professions running health makes sense. Running energy, farming, business, economy or the home office, less so.