I love living in Norfolk. There's noting on earth would take me back to living in London now.
But having to get up at 5.15am to get to the BBC to do Breakfast Television on a Saturday is a challenge.
Worth it though when the story is about Barclays, and their not being anything like the tax we could reasonably expect of them.
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“and their not being anything like the tax we could reasonably expect of them.”
This is what happens when you blog at 5:15am. 😛
Dear Richard,
I am very pleased you did make it to the BBC, excellent comments and incisive. There is so much obfuscation these days, when the basic questions are relatively clear.
I am not sure where things have gone so badly wrong, my feeling is that the Labour government wanted to appear too friendly to business and business was skilled at influencing the government machinery.
Please keep up your excellent work,
Robert
I switched the tv just as you started. Very good; balanced but definitely getting the message across. It’s a shame you didn’t have a few minutes more to explain why it’s so important.
Richard, you certainly were up ‘bright and early’ although the weather in nearby Ely was rather miserable this morning.
Your contribution on BBC Breakfast Television was excellent as usual and of course timely because of Barclays. A recent tweet has reminded me of the boycott targeted at Barclays because of its involvemnet in apartheid South Africa. Maybe a similar course of action will be adopted on thier low corporation tax payments. We shall wait and see.
I saw the story, it was on the BBC news channel this morning. It was good.
5.15am? Sounds like 5am was ideal, but couldn’t resist that extra 15 mins in the warm!
Hi Dicky
I see you’re now moving even further away from any form of transparency on your blog and are only publishing posts from doe-eyed sycophants. Well done you! I suspect you’ll be trying to get the army out on the streets next and trying to censor the internet. We’ll have to rectify the balance.
Love you
xx
I wonder how much they make of nice safe Gilts too.
@Keith
97% of comments posted get onto this site – probably 100% more than left wing comments get onto most right wing sites – like the Telegraph
And sometimes I even let on people like you to show ) you think only right wing comments are objective b) how stupid you are c) how violent is your thinking d) that occasionally I’m happy fro people from the Isle of Man to show just how ridiculous they can be
Skimming it a little…the banks drive (or drove) the “offshore” model, which drives escalating Sovereign debt in advanced economies.
My point was that the banks make a nice (and very safe) buck off loaning Governments too, as well as the rather obvious avoidance of tax. The mechanisms fuel each other.
If you look at a time series of net Government debt (not deficits), you will see this ‘escalation’. Drop the data from WEO into Excel and you have exponential growth between 1980 (earliest in this DB) and the mid-nineties – this is ‘escalation’ in systems-speak.
It may be that Wars gave developed countries debts to start with, but internationalisation of the tax system (and the creation of offshore) made it a damn sight worse – but then offshore relates to country size…and (survival) reaction to large countries’ tariffs.
I thought that economics got known for being ‘the dismal science’ as early economists pointed out the failure of common sense solutions that often got implemented (and made matters worse). The alternatives – the blindly “ridiculous” were often correct (e.g. emancipation).
😉
Yes it was a good performance I thought you got the message over well.
Only spoilt by one Bill Clinton “I did not have sex with that woman” moment when you denied membership of UK Uncut , but said you had
“sympathy” with them.
@Stephen Griffiths
Except Bill lied
I told the truth
I’m not a member of UK Uncut
I do have sympathy with them
100% correct statement