Do you think about your comments or just reflexively beat your keyboard at every triggering event? As a country we spent less than comparable nations. So yes £200 billion. 'This analysis examine… (View Post)

Proper power does strange things to the brain. He'd be an oddity choosing to go after one term. (View Post)

A little OT but ... What is it to kid ourselves, maybe the metrics play as much a role than any qualitative measure? We pronounce these very Germanic economic rules around debt to GDP ratios, inflati… (View Post)

Can you really run a country with arbitrary economic rules that every chancellor for the last decade has been gaming? I think much of what we've taken as economic gospel is simply post facto jus… (View Post)

They don't have to sell it, they've five years to do stuff that they believe will change the country for the better. They can then be judged on the outcome. IMO the absolute worst scenario … (View Post)