A small part of me wonders if Russel Tovey is actually the doctor

We have got to make politics intellectual again. It is the only way that societies thrive is when politicians have the capability to actually think and reflect deeply:

Reagan didn’t write his own speeches but Thatcher was genuinely intellectual even if she was wrong

I don't remember Jeremy Hunt being asked if it was self interest that made him vandalise the public finances.

That’s their system but this is our system

Interestingly Crusade & Skull are both set 51 years before their release & Doom close behind on 50 years.
Mean release gap is 49.25 years so if they made one next year, it could be a post watergate conspiracy thriller set in 1976.
Dial was set between 54 years and 2235 years before its release.

It’s either income tax rise or more of this kind of thing

So it is every year? Incredible that you can raise an additional 40 billion income and it’s not enough.

Is that £40bn over 5 years or £40bn per year? If it is the latter, where has that gone?

“Last year we had a problem with inflation and we increased costs on business and inflation stayed high. Let’s do it again and this time it will come down”

All I know is that 2% on income tax would have produced all the revenue needed to reform public services and instead, we are getting trial by jury abolished because the money has run out

@chitgrrl.bsky.social it’s Kenneth Clark without the ‘e’ ; historian and father of Alan the hard right wing mega posh Tory backbencher.
Kenneth Clarke with the ‘e’ is thr former chancellor of the exchequer, centre right working class Tory. (Too busy standing in Rushcliffe aged 29 to make the show)

Yeah - the only 'here's why it is different' are people just huffily going 'well, of course it's different'. I mean, yes, sure, it is a vaguely different lever, but to everyone hit by it, it is still money that was appearing in *their* bank account on payday that *won't*.

Why would any government with an aging population want to *disincentivise* people saving for a pension?

Better than sending people two thousand dollars, which would fuel inflation, would be to spend the money on infrastructure like public transportation that could reduce the inflation.
Obviously both are better than a fascist ballroom

To illustrate how disingenuous this campaign is

“85% have made payments to get better cars” does *not* mean “85% have bought Beamers”. Most people don’t lease Beamers with the scheme. The extra payments are adaptations to allow disabled people to use the cars, wheelchair hoists for eg