The other thing to say about the bond market is that in many respects they're remarkably lenient - I guess there's a lot of money sloshing around looking for a safe harbour. Britain has bee… (View Post)

I think borrowing to invest is fine. But borrowing to invest and to fund current spending and to pay for debt interest is not. If you want to fund investment with borrowing that's fine, but I th… (View Post)

We would need to come up with some objective measures to judge his performance, which was kinda hard with Starmer because - besides the pledge to build 1.5 million houses - he was always very vague a… (View Post)

I see Streeting as a more competent version of Starmer. I think he's too wedded to the political triangulations of Blairism to deal with both the present problems of the country, or the modern p… (View Post)

Sure it can. The only person who was willing to do something to bring it to an end has been bullied into backing down. It can go on for ages. (View Post)