Well I don't want the Tories to win the next election but that last prediction is fanciful. All it really shows is the failure of such modelling. (View Post)

Sometimes his alalysis is just plain wrong. I remember a year or two back when he claimed there were no forces operating under the EU flag in East Africa - which greatly amused my neighbour who had j… (View Post)

But who in the public sector has had to put up with their salary being cut by 10% or more. Not just compared to inflation but an actual reduction in the number of pounds in their gross pay packet? Th… (View Post)

Since 2015 a number of companies I have been consulting for have made two 10% cuts in the salaries of all staff except those already on minimum wage. And, since inflation is the on top of that, the c… (View Post)

Following Trump's defeat back in 2020 I wrote a thread header on here about the demise of the US Middle Class. In it I used the work of Stephen Rose from the Brookings Institute in Washington wh… (View Post)