Recent content by Pavilionaire

A National Treasure. Just a single required for a well-deserved ton.

By Tory standards these "misdemeanours" are trivial. Labour need - and deserve - more time, and to be cut some slack. Starmer dumped Annelise Dodds for Reeves not long ago, so I can't see her being demoted. Starmer has impressed on the world stage, probably the most statesmanlike leader...

I take your point. In a perfect world it would be nice if the media could be more objective about the reasons behind tax and spend, but we're just in a perpetual loop where the perception is Labour care more about people than money and the Tories care more about money than people. Taxation...

These people are leaving the UK in their droves and taking their money with them. We are losing 30 millionaires a day, and it's no surprise given Labour's tax hikes on non-doms. Many are moving to Dubai or Singapore, some with EU business interests are going to Paris, Amsterdam or Monaco...

Sorry I didn't give a full and complete list of all of the wins and losses. The point I was making is that it isn't actually a complete failure for the most vulnerable and poor, and it is simplistic to point to ignore the good stuff and focus just on the bad stuff. Labour had to promise they...

That's not actually true through. They've increased the minimum wage for 3 million low paid workers, they've preserved the triple lock for pensioners, increased spending on the NHS to its highest levels since 2010, ended many of the strikes, introduced an Employment Rights Bill to give better...

Labour deserve some credit for concluding a trade deal with India today. I just hope that it doesn't compromise our ability to re-enter the Single Market / Customs Union should we wish to do so in the future. Just to put that into context, according to the ONS, India is 2% of our imports and...

Less good is better than bad, but still worse than good. In practice, Brexit with Single Market / Customs Union was never even seriously discussed as an option because that was acknowledged as being worse than what we had. The only discussion in town was status quo (i.e. better than most...

We already had that as members of the EU, so how would our economy get STRONGER by Brexiting? It makes no sense to keep paying the same fees, but as a rule taker rather than a rule maker - even more so when as members we already had opt outs for Schengen and the Euro. Furthermore, by leaving...

A dubious claim. And what is your version of Brexit that would have improved our economy?

Farage is a genius. He causes Brexit which creates a problem for the UK that didn't exist before Brexit - i.e. small boat crossings - which kills the 2 main parties because they can't stem the tide, causing him to surge ahead in the polls and give him his best chance of becoming PM. And all...

Normally when a political party wins control of a council they've previously had serving councillors who know the ropes of how things work. We now have a situation where there are 10 councils who will now be run by a new party whose councillors have next to zero council experience. What could...

It's Nazi fetishism. The polished jackboots, the long-leather coats and the shiny, peaked black cap.

Their current 330 seats is only 18 less than the combined Tory AND Labour total of 348. But despite their 72 MPs demanding some level of respect they will still get no airtime because they are not led by a "charismatic" gobshite racist.

These Tory loss figures are remarkable. In voter terms we are now down to the bare bones, i.e. those voters who have always voted Tory and don't even think about it, or even consider the issues, plus those who simply can't stand Farage. I'm mindful many will have been eligible to vote but...