This tweet by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales has just been published:
As interesting were these analyses that the ICAEW:
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Comforting.
Those numbers are very big
Those are great numbers. In other articles I read, ideas like raising interest rates to curb inflation, and govt spending being dependent upon tax are so entrenched, your blog seems to be the only place where they’re challenged, it does offer hope. I think, however, it’ll be when some MPs start speaking in these terms and explaining it that the impact will be felt. It may be like those situations where nothing changes until everything changes. I’m really glad you’re doing this work.
The glossary will work up to briefings that may be short enough for MPs…
ITV has just launched series 5 of a crime drama Unforgotten. You can see the entire series on ITVX.
At about 20 minutes of Episode 5, just after the second commercial break: a political adviser is discussing a Tory member of the House of Lords and describing how much he had changed from a dyed in the wool Thatcherite, propounding basically a version of the household fallacy that you run a country like a home. Then he changed and announced – actually an economy is profoundly different from a household and you should be borrowing to spend on public services.
Is the message actually getting out there?
Interesting