He probably has no idea who he is and had nothing to do with him being stood as a candidate. After the election he didn’t even wait for his declaration before doing a photoshoot of “all” 4 Reform MPs.

But are they actually done now by those sixth formers?

Are EPQs often done by less academic pupils/ones doing vocational courses? Would Y10-11s who needed to be relieved of the load of an extra couple of GCSEs be capable of doing a worthwhile junior EPQ?

The truly politically homeless at the moment are those who are socially and economically liberal. So to the left of Labour now socially and way to the right of Con/LD/Ref economically. Maybe the group most likely to stay Tory through lack of alternative and hopes of outlasting those who go LD/Ref?

Not really. Things very different now.

Could probably survive if it knew what it was for and was confident that that would be needed again one day even if not popular now. But neither of those things are looking v plausible at the moment.

Corbyn could if he could be bothered.

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That is someone else’s problem though. Obviously if you can show your policy is not only good in itself but also would be popular (or at least not unpopular enough to stop its sponsors losing) and capable of implementation that would be ideal to make a sale.

Though I always wonder at how so many people who spend their lives on politics so often have so few ideas about what they’d actually like to do if given the chance after all their hard work in getting elected.

Whenever I see the words “in the right places” I know I can completely disregard everything else said as it means “nowhere”.

Balanced out by wfh. But obviously that’s wrong and bad too.

It’s more complex because we’ve also massively grown the childcare sector and pumped a huge amount of subsidy into it.

Maybe being able to afford a home without saving for a decade and borrowing 5x income might go towards helping there.

In the context of wages and productivity it is. Obviously in terms of stuff generally falling apart and the Police and schools having turned into the main providers of much social support as the only bits nobody is shutting down, no.

While also eschewing the sweaty man jobs of actually building stuff rather than writing reports about why stuff ought not to be built anywhere.

Driven by having an ageing population. Who refuse to pay for that growth in demand.

The only impact of austerity in this is that it helped keep non-minimum wages from rising and so added to the compression of the differentials (old fashioned lefties used to care a lot about these) while minimum wages rose. Severely cutting tax by increasing the personal allowance the cherry on that

It may be that we’re not far off having achieved what is currently possible with automation so are left with mainly things that are, pending cheap sentient androids, unavoidably human.

If you have done that while raising the income of the entirely unproductive have a golf clap.