Not sure about that. Johnson wanted to increase taxes to spend money. Had he lasted to 2024 the NHS and Social Care Levy would be embedded in the tax system, and public spending would be higher. Ther… (View Post)

Brexit Got Done. I might not be happy about it and would have preferred a different outcome and endstate, but we now have stable trading arrangements and rules which allows business to plan and inves… (View Post)

British ignorance of the day really. Fancy not being aware of the devastating consequences of a famine caused in part by government policy and indifference on what was a part of your country at the t… (View Post)

We should remember that early Blair was not without its ructions. Wasn't there a ministerial resignation following the cut to single parent benefits? Quite a bit of unhappiness about sticking to… (View Post)

You'd want a plan to quickly get as close to self-sufficiency as possible, and then ideally something relatively light that was valuable enough to send back in trade. Perhaps Martian gemstones? (View Post)