Yes it would have been a crisis, which is fine, crises happen. It is the legacy that would bave been different. In any typical cycle the crisis causes the deficit to balloon, then it is brought back … (View Post)

The reason for any crash varies, but the nature or existence of them does not. The change in the UKs deficit from the year before the recession to the year after it was actually less in the GFC (+6.6… (View Post)

The way to get more taxes is to get more growth and more revenue that way, not higher tax rates. The best way to get growth is to stop opposing growth. Stop opposing development. This North Sea move … (View Post)

You are demonstrating why this is a good move. Labour losing Hamas fanatics to the Greens is not the worst thing in the world, so long as they can win the centre. The centre is not going to a veggie … (View Post)

The problem is he is a narcissist. The UK is America's closest longstanding ally, not his. (View Post)