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3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - O'Brien and his critic... · 0 replies · +1 points

It was certianly covered on various Radio 4 news bulletins, including the main 6pm programme.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - WATCH: Was Labour wron... · 0 replies · +1 points

Sadiq Khan does the same, but I've never heard any similar criticism.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - John Baron: Torching q... · 0 replies · +1 points

The ASA has itself now goes well beyond it's statutory 'Legal, Decent, Honest and Truthful' duties, and is fully requiring diversity and inclusion by advertisers on top (and probably instead of, as far as the 'decent' part goes).

I fear it would be no help to you.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Travel and the virus. ... · 1 reply · +1 points

One would reasonably expect that every end-to-end journey which involves crossing the UK border, at least inwardly, should have to satisfy the same 'Stay At Home' restrictions that apply to any intra-UK journey, including the requirement to sleep at the same place you slept the previous night.

Bur do they?

Or does being an 'international traveller' confer special privileges?

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - WATCH: Nick Thomas-Sym... · 1 reply · +1 points

For all that some people try to claim that Bojo is Britain's Trump (a significantly popular meme at the time), my guess is that the misguided reluctance to restrict inward travel was largely due to a desire, particularly after the offiical Brexit date, to be seen as exactly the opposite.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - A new property tax wou... · 1 reply · +1 points

It doesn't sound as though you have much faith in the power of a LVT to ensure 'efficient' use of land, if you immediately want to distort if in favour of agriculature.

The idea of requiring 'efficiency' in land use sounds like a Soviet concept, where the measure of progress is found tractor production numbers. We know how that ended.

No -- economic progress is essentially the improvement of quality of life. If someone happens to enjoy wandering around their land for pleasure and is prepared to pay more for it than someone who might be looking to set up their tractor factory, there is nothing wrong with that from the point of view of economic efficiency.

The Governement is, of course, free to redistribute personal wealth as it sees fit.

3 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Mario Laghos: Johnson ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Why should we care whether Johnson becomes a 'historic' PM? I might be more interested in a bit of quiet competence, preferably guided by a bit of genuine conservatism.

The whole article is premised on the presumed interests of Boris Johnson.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Mark Lehain: The Gover... · 1 reply · +1 points

I have some sympathy with this. 80% places a very low value on free time, and the Government has never explained why 50% furlough pay would be insufficient given that that is the gateway threshhold it places on self-employed income before any pandemic-related help whatsoever is available.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Mark Lehain: The Gover... · 0 replies · +1 points

Well said.

4 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - The wind of Biden's ch... · 2 replies · +1 points

There is a big push from Number Ten to stress that the green thing is all about the spiky, hard business of jobs in the Red Wall – or Blue Wall, as Tories like to call it now – and not the fluffy, softer instinct to save the planet. For once, it is marching in step with most Conservative backbenchers.

If this is true it is pretty shocking. Jobs for their own sake is not wealth creation, or we could go round smashing everything up once in a while. I thought Conservatives understood this stuff.

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