"We didn’t do as badly as some others" does not mean that we couldn’t have done better. (View Post)

Exactly: the government deficit ballooned enormously in the years immediately following 2008: Markets didn’t care. Osborne chose to reduce the deficit in a period of high unemployment instead of spen… (View Post)

The deficit was going to balloon anyway & the markets didn’t care, as demonstrated by the long term bond rates. So the short term expenditure is irrelevant: what matters is that people believe in… (View Post)

Yes, I agree that Osborne completely misunderstood how the economy actually functions and crippled the UK’s recovery as a result. & it’s not a relaxed attitude to government spending. When the la… (View Post)

Personally, I agree that there’s not a great deal of point in wearing them out-doors. But I would wear them inside any enclosed space - consider that many the shops you go into will have air conditio… (View Post)