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Happiness and a prosperous society go hand in hand... Most people just want enough money to buy a house, run a household and start a family. Particularly the latter is seem out of reach for many ordinary people which fuels our tanking fertility rates and exacerbates our future demographic crisis.

The fundamental problem the country has is the lack of economic growth. It's fairly basic economics that a historically high tax burden is not conducive for growth. Previous governments have actually raised more revenue when cutting some taxes (notably, Osborne cutting corporation tax increased...

The main driver for public spending increases was giving the public sector workers pay rises and frankly, its caused a significant black hole in the public finances. Right now, the Chancellor is struggling to actually pay for this because the bond markets are noticing and the cost of borrowing...

This narrative is hysterical, frankly. Reform's flagship policy on tax was to increase the tax-free threshold to £20,000 from c. £13,000. Which is a tax that benefits everyone but helps lower income people the most. For example, an individual earning £30k will go from having around 55% of their...

If we stop the clock, we can call the game on 90 minutes after the ball goes dead.

Our debt repayments are projected to be £105.2bn (OBR) this year, some forecasters have this at £160+ bn. 2025-26 the OBR predicts £111.2 bn. The problem here is that if you don’t manage public debt, this pot of spending grows and if interest rates go up (which they are) or your credit rating...

The Tories objectively have a better record on diversity than Labour and 'the left' can't stand it. In fact, the tory membership have backed two female candidates back-to-back... Personally, I like Kemi, is a decent leader of the Tories and in ordinary times would probably poll v well. Right...

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!’...