That's not going to get it to £290 million! Though I assume you meant billion. The job of the next Government will be to get total expenditure down to 2019 levels - 2008 if they're really g… (View Post)

Has the OBR improved the quality of budgets and succeeded in making us less indebted since its introduction? Has Bank of England independence improved and stabilised our monetary policy? These organi… (View Post)

No. 'Spending' isn't an appropriate measure of anything. (View Post)

That's why we need to know a set of political outcomes (or in this case military capabilities) that we need, and work out how much we must spend to get there. On JRM's podcast, he said in h… (View Post)

The whole 'increase defence spending' push is one of these very simplistic, easy-sounding bandwagons that is, frankly, a terrible idea. We do not need to 'increase defence spending… (View Post)