I posted this thread on Twitter this morning, summarising this post in a more accessible way: The government is going to pay our commercial banks
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Spending cuts will be £27 billion next year – which is the additional unnecessary sum the government is planning to pay in interest to the UK’s banks next year
Forgive me if what follows is a little technical. It relates to an issue of massively important concern, which is the amount of interest that
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What a surprise: only the top 10% gain from the Autumn Statement
This is analysis from the New Economics Foundation: Guess what? The Tories have made life more difficult in the UK the lower your level of
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The Tories are literally dying out
I thought this Twitter thread from Ben Ansell well worth sharing here: At this point the focus was on housing, and I am not sure
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Hunt has lost the Mail
This is the Mail’s front page today: Click on it for a bigger image which should be readable. Yes, it’s nasty. Yes, it’s predictable. But
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Hunt’s plan for the UK is a recipe for a crash on an unprecedented scale
This article came out on The Mirror website yesterday evening and is in the paper today, I understand: Written in the hour after the budget
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It looks like Labour will follow the Tory’s plan for austerity if they get into office
I have already mentioned being on the Jeremy Vine Show today. Just about the last comment Jeremy made was that as far as he could
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The Autumn Statement is dire – as shown by the Office for Budget Responsibility’s charts
I would like the energy to write more about the budget, but I found today surprisingly tiring. Some of my long Covid is back again,
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On the Autumn Statement with Jeremy Vine
I was on the Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2 at lunchtime, discussing the budget with Jeremy and Mark Littlewood of the Institute of
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