How can you look at the period 2000-2010 and then 2010-2025 and conclude it's not that bad?That's real wages where they were FIFTEEN YEARS ago.

Guilty as charged

Get yourself to Funchal, stat. The main cable car is probably more picturesque but the one to the botanic garden is also lovely and if it's a cruise ship day you stand a chance of getting on without waiting for two hours. You can of course get a combined ticket for both.

What do you mean by no matter how much tax we pay? The 3 main taxes haven't risen in a decade and people had a NI cut - no one has even tried to do a proper spending increase paid for by broad based tax rises. Median earners pay less tax than ever! Of course nothing changes, we haven't even tried.

Labour’s current strategy seems to be announcing a policy before shouting “psych!”

None

Lots of their target demographic is or will be literally DEAD by 2029 and the rest hasn't voted Labour for two decades. It's completely bizarre

Must that leader be a complete clean skin in your judgment. Would any senior cabinet figure not be tarnished by association by the toxic Starmer brand?

Everything they do should be about what best sets up whichever fresh-faced MP becomes the leader in January 2029 to go 'I'm new! Inflation is down, interest rates are down, bin collections are weekly, GP appointments are up and the police catch criminals again!'

It's absolutely correct - so much of it is just basically 'New Labour - too effeminate, too pro-globalisation, too middle class', and I hate to inform you lads, but actually, the British electorate is in fact majority middle class and majority female, and this is even more true of your coalition.

how many billionaires do you think there are in the UK?

If Labour cannot denounce mass deportation of permanent residents, Idi Amin style, what is the point of them?