To return to a point I made earlier about the weakness of the fiscal rule (to have debt falling as a share of GDP in five years time), it is worth pointing out that meeting this rule is based on pret… (View Post)

A marginal amelioration of an anomaly they introduced isn't really much to boast about though. "Vote for us! We'll eventually get around to making partial fixes to the problems we crea… (View Post)

I didn't realise how weak the fiscal rules now were - only to have debt falling as a percentage of GDP in five years. So it's within Hunt's rules to splurge on tax cuts now, while debt… (View Post)

Isn't the basis of their quashing Colorado's removal of Trump from the ballot that the States can't do that? Who is going to stop Trump running for a third term in 2028? SCOTUS seems t… (View Post)

But then that's effectively a rebalancing of tax away from NI back to income tax, which is a reversal of the consensus that had prevailed for many decades, and which has seen PAYE employees taxe… (View Post)