Labour Needs To Tell The Truth About Tax

If the UK has another general election this year (or next) Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party will lose. Again. In their euphoria at outperforming everyone’s expectations in the election just past Mr Corbyn and his merry crew appear to have overlooked the fact that they polled the best part of a million votes fewer than the…

Pressing The Red Button

This topic is outwith the usual scope of this blog but last night’s BBC Question Time Q&A has me wondering how many of us understand how a nuclear deterrent is supposed to work. During the Q&A there was some hostility to the idea that a putative Prime Minister (Jeremy Corbyn) wouldn’t “have the guts” to…

The Magic Money Tree

Last night in a debate hosted by the BBC Amber Rudd (Home Secretary of the current UK government, Conservative, desperately scrabbling to win a general election that she thought was in the bag on the day it was announced) repeatedly accused Jeremy Corbyn (current leader of the opposition, Labour, getting dangerously close to making fools…