Unexpected and total agreement with Jacob Rees-Mogg

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If you have a detailed process people complain about the length and complexity. If you have a simple and brief process people complain that important details are unresolved and have no legal certainty. In regulation you can never please anyone so you might as well please yourself.

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still are. the grandes ecoles are almost all descended from specialist schools which trained engineers, usually for the army. That's why they have names like "Ecole des Mines", "Ponts et Chaussees", "Polytechnique" and such

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Tangentially, the transformation of Labour Together into ThinkLabour has been a much more positive development than I think any of us McSweeney sceptics could possibly have expected? Lots of very sensible stuff being put out by them lately

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'Markets and price signals work' and 'cash transfers fix almost all the negatives you can imagine arising from them working' are mine, which I think captures both where I am more liberal (in both senses) and a touch to your left, I think'.

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