Brown actually had a budget surplus at the time, so it was an actual war chest. Not a deficit of 5% of GDP. Unfortunately Brown 2 years later started spending like a drunken sailor on shore leave and… (View Post)

Nope, but you can believe we need to tackle climate change while recognising the preposterous absurdity of Ed's policies. Climate change is not happening because of the extraction of hydrocarbon… (View Post)

It is absurd the way governments talk about a contingency of £10bn when the the deficit is well over a hundred billion pounds and nearly 5% of GDP. There is no contingency unless we're in surplu… (View Post)

They did raise taxes last year, dramatically. Problem is they raised the very worst possible tax to increase. National Insurance is only payable by those actually working, or those actually creating … (View Post)

Pope Catholic. (View Post)