What moron calculated that our fiscal hole is £20 billion? Our fiscal hole is the entire budget deficit. That was £137 bn at last reckoning. (View Post)

If we weren't running deficits and were running balanced budgets, with deficits used only to manage swings and roundabouts, then we wouldn't need to radically amend plans. The problem is tr… (View Post)

I hope the news that Reeves is leaking she won't increase income tax does not mean she will be increasing national insurance instead. NI is much worse than income tax, it is a tax only on those … (View Post)

Wrong, as usual. Fuel duty has raised hundreds of billions from overtaxed drivers. "Cuts" have not cost a penny. Drivers are a rare, net, overtaxed surplus to the Exchequer not a recipient … (View Post)

For those who are fed up with neo-fascism. (View Post)