Another Office for Budget Responsibility chart that spells out bad news for the economy, us all, and Labour, and all thanks to the Bank of
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Austerity is back
I continue to read the autumn statement documentation and share it here and on Twitter. So, I got to this: Is Labour going to stick
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Unless Labour takes control of interest rates its time in office will be painful for them and us all
Another Tweet on the autumn statement: When inflation is going to be at 2%, demanding that households pay 5% interest on their mortgages is a
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The Bank of England is now tilting at inflation windmills at cost to us all
This is another tweet, just posted: It would seem that UK economic management is totally out of control. No wonder we are in a mess.
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Hunt is not controlling the national debt: inflation is simply reducing its value
There are two charts here, both addressing the issue of debt, with which both the Tories and Labour are wholly inappropriately obsessed (in my opinion).
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The Tories are planning some serious austerity, starting very soon
This is another Tweet, just posted: So, the Tories are back on the austerity agenda with planned spending cuts that no one thinks are deliverable,
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Hunt’s misplaced hope
I just tweeted this, whilst having a coffee after broadcasting and getting my first post-autumn statement out for someone else. There is no way on
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Radio 2, lunchtime today
I will be spending this lunchtime in the studios of Radio Two at Wogan House in London, WC1. This has been the case for almost
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Today’s autumn statement is based on a pile of totally false economic assumptions
What is really depressing about today, the Autumn Statement that Jeremy Hunt will deliver, and the response we will get from Rachel Reeves, is the
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