Ian Boucher
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Saw about twenty minutes of the first half. Looked hard work for both sides.
December 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Saw about twenty minutes of the first half. Looked hard work for both sides.
That’s Dion for you.
December 13, 2025 at 10:42 AM
That’s Dion for you.
If you could manage a 9-0 win that would be nice! Thanks in advance.
December 13, 2025 at 9:31 AM
If you could manage a 9-0 win that would be nice! Thanks in advance.
No. I think there is a shift. The debate in the 80’s was a low tax less regulated market vs more state intervention and higher taxes. Austerity and debate around it was much more about just borrowing and investing more. People are stuck there imo generally. Ignoring all that happened since.
December 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
No. I think there is a shift. The debate in the 80’s was a low tax less regulated market vs more state intervention and higher taxes. Austerity and debate around it was much more about just borrowing and investing more. People are stuck there imo generally. Ignoring all that happened since.
Speechless at this story generally and how it is reported here.
December 12, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Speechless at this story generally and how it is reported here.
I dunno. The argument in 85 was ‘more tax vs smaller state’ whereas I think many people now argue as in 2014 for more investment in public services, higher wages etc but without the higher tax bit. Yes austerity was damaging to the economy but it’s not 2015 anymore.
December 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I dunno. The argument in 85 was ‘more tax vs smaller state’ whereas I think many people now argue as in 2014 for more investment in public services, higher wages etc but without the higher tax bit. Yes austerity was damaging to the economy but it’s not 2015 anymore.
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Yeah, I mean so much of this is people who think they hate modernity, when no, their actual problem is 'free markets' and 'the public policy choices we as a society have made'.
December 11, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Yeah, I mean so much of this is people who think they hate modernity, when no, their actual problem is 'free markets' and 'the public policy choices we as a society have made'.
The median person says this every single generation without fail!
December 12, 2025 at 10:26 AM
The median person says this every single generation without fail!
I mean it’s not even about levers. Stop doing anti growth things like raising cost of employing people and increasing business rates.
December 12, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I mean it’s not even about levers. Stop doing anti growth things like raising cost of employing people and increasing business rates.
There is a weird phenomenon I’ve noticed where many people seem politically stuck in 2014-2016. Not just in Brexit but also on the economy and austerity and public services. Wanting to refight the old arguments again rather than realising we are in 2025…and it’s different.
December 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
There is a weird phenomenon I’ve noticed where many people seem politically stuck in 2014-2016. Not just in Brexit but also on the economy and austerity and public services. Wanting to refight the old arguments again rather than realising we are in 2025…and it’s different.
Morgan always warned that his own strategy was the wrong one. Love that.
December 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Morgan always warned that his own strategy was the wrong one. Love that.
If we hadn’t done this then it wouldn’t just be racists if would be worser racists. A fair price to pay to keep it just at racists.
December 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
If we hadn’t done this then it wouldn’t just be racists if would be worser racists. A fair price to pay to keep it just at racists.
Well I think they could do more there. It’s not just on them and it’s unfair to expect them to but I’d suggest that like any sector when under attack you need to come out with the big guns. Instead they are worryingly cosying up to reform it seems.
December 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Well I think they could do more there. It’s not just on them and it’s unfair to expect them to but I’d suggest that like any sector when under attack you need to come out with the big guns. Instead they are worryingly cosying up to reform it seems.
Universities need to do a better job of explaining the broader range of transferable skills a degree course equips someone with and that most of the time it isn’t the direct knowledge that matters. One such skill being an ability so assess and weight evidence and opinion. Kemi could use those skills
December 9, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Universities need to do a better job of explaining the broader range of transferable skills a degree course equips someone with and that most of the time it isn’t the direct knowledge that matters. One such skill being an ability so assess and weight evidence and opinion. Kemi could use those skills
I’m so absolutely sick of this constant thought vomit on how we train and up skill the next generation with nothing behind it other than ‘vibes’ or ‘common sense from X’. It’s thoroughly depressing. At least we’ve not got any paradigm shifting changes about to hit most sectors though…oh…
December 9, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I’m so absolutely sick of this constant thought vomit on how we train and up skill the next generation with nothing behind it other than ‘vibes’ or ‘common sense from X’. It’s thoroughly depressing. At least we’ve not got any paradigm shifting changes about to hit most sectors though…oh…
Isn’t that more or less exactly how Starmer has been talking about this?
December 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Isn’t that more or less exactly how Starmer has been talking about this?
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Whereas the problem with going 'we will have the old Labour right's approach to social issues BUT we are going to do Old Labour economic policies to make it up to our left flank' is that Labour voters are repelled by the social issues and the economic policies don't work!
Let me count the ways in which Labour isn’t working
The government’s muddled thinking on the economy is causing it to haemorrhage support on all sides
www.ft.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Whereas the problem with going 'we will have the old Labour right's approach to social issues BUT we are going to do Old Labour economic policies to make it up to our left flank' is that Labour voters are repelled by the social issues and the economic policies don't work!
Sure. But the reality is you have made employing people, especially young people more expensive. And it’s clear this is having an impact - across sectors you probably wouldn’t like it to. Anecdotally it feels tough out there right now.
December 8, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Sure. But the reality is you have made employing people, especially young people more expensive. And it’s clear this is having an impact - across sectors you probably wouldn’t like it to. Anecdotally it feels tough out there right now.
Labour’s inability to take on any issue whether to the right or left and make a confident case for their position is infuriating. It’s clearly the limit of Starmer having no real politics but it’s still maddening. Can’t counter falsehoods. Can’t debate. Stuck in an endless ming vase loop.
December 8, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Labour’s inability to take on any issue whether to the right or left and make a confident case for their position is infuriating. It’s clearly the limit of Starmer having no real politics but it’s still maddening. Can’t counter falsehoods. Can’t debate. Stuck in an endless ming vase loop.
I’d love Keir to take advice from someone who tells him to stop saying ‘skin in the game’ (and ‘noises off’ though that isn’t here). Also not a good look to misspell the name of the person who is the face of your child poverty strategy even if only once.
December 7, 2025 at 11:19 AM
I’d love Keir to take advice from someone who tells him to stop saying ‘skin in the game’ (and ‘noises off’ though that isn’t here). Also not a good look to misspell the name of the person who is the face of your child poverty strategy even if only once.
Well yes - Labour members will also ignore the only really successful government they’ve ever managed to produce in the pursuit of some soft left champion. I’d rather they actually sought someone with clear ideas and has a credible plan to enact them.
December 6, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Well yes - Labour members will also ignore the only really successful government they’ve ever managed to produce in the pursuit of some soft left champion. I’d rather they actually sought someone with clear ideas and has a credible plan to enact them.