Where are you reading this? They seem pretty clear about day-to-day and long term investment. See the conclusion: 'This analysis shows that over the past decade the UK has spent less on both day-to-d… (View Post)

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 examines how… (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 justific… (View Post)