1 is bigger than 2. We remain a huge economy which outside investors want to spend money in. Give them things to invest in which deliver a clear ROI and debt is manageable. Debt interest is a problem… (View Post)

And it goes beyond them. Austerity is rightly seen as having done immense damage. But remember that the Coalition government spent *more* money than Labour had proposed had they won the 2010 election… (View Post)

We are spending money on the wrong things. We have persuaded ourselves that we can’t afford to pay for teachers and medics and yet cannot function without them. So we pay more for short term cover an… (View Post)

The public now largely recognise that our economy is structurally broken. The question is what to do about it. LabCon governments - despite the rhetoric - get stuck with Treasury orthodoxy which dict… (View Post)

Piss funny. “We’d be doing a lot better if we had a new plan to offer on independence” No, that’s what your hardline members want. What your voters - especially former voters - want is for you to fix… (View Post)