My starter for ten is the low pay commission

Famously wrote the end of history, this is talking about his sequel with Michael gove

Just a thought really, when the pension system as it is was bought in, most of those who were retiring within the following 50 years had started work at 14 and would retire 51 years later. Now, the average age to start full time work is 24 yet retirement is only just going up to 68 so just 44 years of paying in.

By rights we should at least retire at 75 and promise not o live too long either but if we can change retirement to 70 for both the state pension and public sector pensions, we can also retain skills.

It looks like Burnham is keen on them but he's surely applying the concept incorrectly? They are not a substitute for local authority taxes.

This was a question posed on the Lib dem forum, I suspect the replies on here may be different / I daresay "better"

What deregulation are you in favour of?

For me:

Planning reform

Building regs reform

Construction site reform

Employment Rights Act

Trusted foreign regulators to speed up drug and technology approvals

Child care (adult to child ratios to reduce)

Sports sponsorship

Banking assets / lending ratios

Online safety bill

Energy regulations

So, you pop up on this sub and ask a question or two, I think most agree that this sub is very open and people answer questions in good faith.

I've had a chap yesterday seemingly asking fair questions and getting fair answers. They increasingly got shirty about criticism of the current Labour govt which was strange as the guy was blaming Brexit for a lot of the country's ills and anyone who listened to the Labour leadership and read the manifesto could see that Labour's Europe policy was to 'crack on with Brexit' much like ReformUK and Conservatives.

So, I've answered in good faith and the guy gets out of his depth and blocks me, that's so cowardly.

ShivAGit

Following on fron Nick Clegg asking where the growth strategy is. This economist identifies the basic housing is choking groeth... Its also free!

From 20 mins on, hes really good on what we need now.

This is a good set of very liberal policies that would cost nothing but add some impetus to the economy.

There are some obvious improvements such as reducing the adult to child ratio in childcare making it cheaper for parents to send their kids to nursery while they go to work through to planning reform and an Italian style tax reform for non-doms.

It all makes a lot of sense and would be easy wins for the new prime minister

I know Reform don't have a great record with planes flying banners but why not have a "Las Malvinas son británicas" with Reform UK logo flown around New Jersey on Sunday. Farage could get permission from Trump

He's spot on, it was the economy and the bad managment of reeves that really did for Starmer.