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BJ is a goner. It's not a question of if, just when. The 58 red wall seats will flip at the next election. They did not go to TM but went to BJ last time because of his 'levelling up' promise. without the red wall seats, the tories can't have a majority in parliament.

You have a very nice donor bike which can take any coonvenional front, middle or rear motor and a downtube battery. So what are your priorities? Stealth, range, weight of the motor, programmability, tidiness of installation? The choice can then be whittled down further if you are overweight or...

if the story has legs, tory MPs should ask the police to investigate. BJ lied in the HoC about parties in No 10 thus breaking ministerial code. That's the issue.

I thought Starmer only needs to keep his cool and he won't put a foot wrong. His opponent is now a vote calamity. Did you watch BBCQT last night? Half of the program (about 30 minutes) were all about whether BJ should fall on his own sword. 17 minutes in, only one person raised his hand in...

Rail franchises don't make as much money as they thought, so there is little appetite to take on some of the regional franchises. Government can expect more franchises will fail and when that happens, the DfT will have to step in. As for Shapps, he is not the decider. Are we talking about the...

BJ and his government was forced into nationalisation of Northern Rail because of the pension deficit of £580 millions. Not something that they would have liked to do. DfT OLR report: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/dft-olr-holdings-limited-annual-report-and-accounts-2019-to-2020

Nobody wanted to take over Northern Rail. Same thing happened to Virgin Trains. If BJ and his government were at all interested in re-nationalisation, there would have been follow-up announcements since. They even drag their feet on HS2. Extra spending on the NHS is necessitated by the record...

can you tell me what they are? Rail franchises turn out to be far less profitable so our government could not find any business willing to take over the failed franchises. They were forced into acting as last resort operators, not by choice. I don't think this current government nor the next...

we will never know in our lifetime what Corbyn/McDonald's economic plan would turn out to be. Covid has indeed inflicted 20% GDP extra national debt, so the idea of borrow to invest large amounts of money would not go down well with the majority of taxpayers. I don't think BJ would have stolen...

Did you watch how BJ apologised in the HoC and for what? He commented that although he was there, people should see that he did not break any Covid rules. Zlatan may find it's OK that BJ shared a drink with his staff but at the time, I am not the only one who could not go see my family because...

65% now think that he is not fit for the office. Don't forget he won big previously because voters would not trust his opponent with the economy. That situation has changed with KS.

I agree with the first part, conservative membership chose him over JH knowing who BJ was. On the second part, I disagreed. Millions of voters believed that JC would have hit their purse hard, so the choice was straightforward between a Marxist socialist and low tax conservative in addition to...

I thought we were discussing whether internet access should be provided free of charge by our government as a principle. As I have already pointed out, it's free from lots of places, schools, libraries, public transports etc in addition to coffee shops, restaurants, banks etc. Students already...

access to the internet by commercial enterprises is not free. Someone (eg Alphabet) has to pay for the sub sea cables, microwave link ups, satellite links, telephone wires, underground optic fibre etc. If you want to put your server in a colo datacentre, most of your rent is spent on bandwidth...

My starting point is the need to pay respect to all, including those to pay taxes and those who run businesses. They should not be automatically assumed to be motivated by greed. I for one would like my tax money well spent so would vote for those who priotitise public services over re-distribution.

access to the internet is the top of a pyramid of other services and have ramifications in other areas, it's not as simple as a glass of free milk in the morning for schoolchildren. I know of a person who has a mobile phone and of course access to the internet but cannot 'sign on' or apply for...

consider this idea: because the internet is essential, it should be made freely available because someone may not be able to pay for it. Let's expand it to cover all daily essential things. who would then need money or earn money or pay taxes? then who would produce the goods and services in the...

there were a few TV documentaries exploring the economics of connecting remote rural properties to the internet. They need to link enough properties (in the hundreds) into a hub and connect that hub to the net. In the early days of the internet, I connected some customers to satellite broadbands...

in that case, JC should have made that his policy much earlier, not a couple of days before the election.

broadband is cheap. You can get 15GB download a month with unlimited calls for £8 a month with Vodafone. Honestly, cost is not exactly a debate here. offering free broadband to entice voters is not a mark of a great thinker.