Not sure the NHS is best example of that. What people find difficult to accept is we pay a remarkably small proportion of GDP (11%) for a health service that isn't too bad - particularly when yo… (View Post)

If you read their exec summary, it's pretty clear they have no idea what's going to happen and have reverted to their medium-term assumption for 2026 onwards. I don't think it's i… (View Post)

Easily done. I asked the wrong Ben if he fancied lunch a few days ago via Teams. Wrong Ben accepted, terrified that this relatively junior member of staff was about to report a serious disaster direc… (View Post)

Easiest way to boost defence spending to 3% of GDP is to trash the rest of the economy. (View Post)

To put some numbers on this, council tax could be replaced a flat 0.5% property value tax. For 1%, you could abolish IHT, CGT and Stamp Duty too. (View Post)