Because growing the tax base also eliminates the deficit. The criticism of Osborne is he cut a lot of stuff than can help deliver growth, like infrastructure spending, while increasing spending on st… (View Post)

I think everyone knew he wouldn’t pass vetting and Robbins took that for granted too - no point telling the PM given it’s a tickbox exercise. That’s a naive mistake on his part. Bigger picture, Starm… (View Post)

None of those metrics are relevant to his performance IMO. This stuff is baked in over decades and, ultimately, the only ones that count are things like healthy life expectancy. (View Post)

We’d be easily self-sufficient at a push. Vast swathes of the country are given over to growing feedstock for animals, plus all the land for cows (sheep are more marginal) - this is a luxury, often f… (View Post)

Or accidentally rationally, with the go-slow protests on the A90 yesterday. We need more of that kind of fuel efficiency 👍 (Confused by the lack of screaming outrage about that. Imagine if they’d be… (View Post)