I propose that the government stops looking at polling, stops flying kites/leaking, stops campaigning for an imaginary general election or leadership campaign - and starts governing, decisively and coherently.

In fact, ban political polling outright until April 2029.

It's Budget Speculation Month. Similar to how people put up Christmas decorations during Advent...

Now reword it as "Do you think the Government should cut spending on the NHS, schools and deporting immigrants?"

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This is the practical result of the marginal rate curve you can see on our Budget tax calculator: taxpolicy.org.uk/2025/11/12/t...

And full write-up there.

Unlike the wind, tides are guaranteed every day.

"Oh. And that's a bad miss."

They generally have the council logo on, but never a party.

Pass the brain bleach

They're simply trying to show the world that there's more than one way to "do a Truss".

NI is absolutely a jobs tax - moving as much of it to income tax (especially on unearned income) should be a long term goal.

She left the Lib Dems after a year, claiming that the Tories were "saying sane things".

Given the manifesto pledge is going to be considered broken anyway, why not increase the basic rate by 2%, increase the higher rate by 3% and reduce employee NIC by 2%.

Move towards unearned income being taxed rather more than earned income.

The worst choice.
- It will be perceived as an income tax increase that breaks manifesto pledge.
- It doesn't raise as much money as a simple rise.
- It is not targeted at those who can afford to pay.

Seems that Trump demanded that heads must roll. The supine UK Government thought that getting the BBC Head of News to resign would suffice but Trump wanted more, so the Director General had to go too.

Of course, if you give a mobster what they ask for, they just come back for more...