have no doubt I could write several posts this morning.
Ministers are lying.
Public services are in chaos and employees in them are rightly protesting.
The lies continue on everything from immigration, to Brexit, to what the country even is.
And the economy needs the exact opposite of what the government and Bank of England are doing to it.
However, Christmas is approaching rapidly and these days in the run up to it are usually amongst the best. So, whilst I am not saying there will be no more posting (because I know my inclination to hit a keyboard too well for that to be true) I am taking a note relaxed attitude for a few days. To have both my sibs at home is quite uncommon right now. I am going to enjoy their company until the urge to write something hits me, that is. And as they have grown up with their Dad on a computer for more hours a day then have just about ever managed I think they will forgive me when I do so again.
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Merry Christmas Richard.
And to you PSR
and so say all of us
ditto to Pilgrim
Merry Christmas. Relax and enjoy important family time!
I will miss your posts – I turn to your blog first thing in the morning – but will look forward to you returning, refreshed, after the holidays.
Thanks
Your posts are the most insightful I have ever read on, not only financial matters, but on many other subjects, so I look forward to reading, and learning more in 2023. Have a Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year Richard.
Thanks
If you do cut back on the blogs then it will be well deserved. Thank you for all the blogs, tweets, articles and radio appearances (hope you get invited back to BBC Radio Stoke on 2023). Very informative. No doubt, 2023 will be the same.
Have a relaxing, enjoyable and fun Christmas.
Craig
Thanks
Hello Richard,
Happy Christmas.
Enjoy the break, relax and take it easy.
Thanks for all your hard work in 2022
Good to know that currently all goes well with you after a trying year with long Covid, Richard, and your boys (young men now, of course) are both at home to enjoy Xmas with you. Thanks for yet another year of stirring, often angry (rightly), and honest blogs and tweets. I may not contribute much in the way of comments these days but follow you every day for my dose of “Murphy’s fire”.
Best wishes.
Ivan
Thanks Ivan
Go well
Enjoy it Richard – with your siblings? or children?.
You say the lead-up is often the best time – it can be a strange combination of best and worst. Memories of those no longer with us , of our own childhood Christmases , and our own childrens’ – as well as maybe, fractions , even break-ups.
Nine lessons and Carols from Kings Cambridge at 3pm on Christmas Eve – always marks the start.
Accommodating families that are often more of a complicated ‘bramble’ than a ‘tree’ – can be a management nightmare lasting several days – to bring various combinations that ‘can’, or ‘cannot’ or ‘must’ be together.
My bet is that you will indeed hit the keyboard at some point….can’t recall any precedent for a government being pleaded with by its own Health Service about a catastrophic emergency – and simply and explicitly doing nothing about it. And apparently getting away with it. Where is Cobra?
Meanwhile Mary Berry’s tips of how to pre-cook Christmas days ahead invaluable – for a meal(s) that spreads over days.
Good luck
Thanks
Merry Christmas, Richard, and All Best Wishes for a Happy New Year!
Enjoy a well-earned break with your family – it’s what the season is all about.
I have an inkling of a suspicion that when you resume your seat at the keyboard, you will be spoiled for choice in the field of subject matter. And we will all be agog at the ongoing doings of this hapless band of incompetents and ne’er-do-wells who masquerade under the name of HM’s Government !
I hope you and your family have a terrific Xmas and I hope the new year is good to you and your family.
With very best wishes and thanks for all you have done this year (and past years) for MMT and for holding our disreputable ‘government’ to account
Have a well-earned Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year
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Merry Xmas, Richard, and best wishes for 2023.
Have a great Christmas break, Richard. Your blog is my essential start to the day and, as for so many others, will be missed while you take a well-deserved break. But don’t let our appetite for more Murphy sway you from what sounds like an excellent choice. Enjoy your family.
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Thank you, Richard, for all your efforts to promote an alternative narrative and to encourage challenging the orthodoxy. I hope you find, as we are looking forward to, that spending time with your offspring brings renewed hope and energy for the new year.
A very happy Christmas to you and yours, and all your readers.
Merry Christmas Richard and many thanks for all that you do.
Merry Christmas, Richard.
Rest and recharge the batteries: I don’t expect next year will be any easier and less frustrating.
I get the impression you’re making headway. More people paying attention. I echo the thanks expressed above for your sterling effort and determination.
For the new year I wish you the health and strength to continue the good work.
Thanks Andy
And to you….
Merry Christmas Richard
Look forward to your insightful and passionate messages in 2023. Keep up the good fight
Many thanks to you, Richard, and to everybody else here that inform and vent their frustration so compassionately and so well.
I hope you enjoy your family time, Richard. This year seems to have been very long and trying for you and I wish you a full recovery; all the best for you and yours for 2023.
Happy Holidays to all here and here’s hoping for a more enlightened and humane year ahead.
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Happy Christmas
Have a peaceful family Christmas Richard; well deserved.
And you John
Many thanks for a consistently thought-provoking and informative series of articles in a challenging year of economic and political chaos. We’ve all learned a great deal here thanks to your incisive logic, analysis and prodigious output.
Wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas and a Happy (and above all) Healthy New Year or, as my ancestors would have put it, Nollaig Chridheil agus Bliadhna Mhath Ur.
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Go well Ken
Have a very Happy Family Christmas Richard. Thank you for what you do!
Thanks Stuart