Yes there’s a whole pile of perverse incentives that need to be eliminated. Everyone in the DWP should get their bonus based on the number of people employed and unemployed. It ends up like the San F… (View Post)

What the NHS needs is a data ‘framework’, that allows multiple suppliers to compete for contracts, rather than a massive national project which will inevitably overrun and lead to dependence on one s… (View Post)

Blair and Boris were both PMs in a time of plenty. Starmer is PM in a time of restraint - except for himself and his friends, who continue to enjoy plenty paid for by the rest of us. (View Post)

Yes it’s like 50% income tax, mostly a psychological crossing of a threshold - but which absolutely changes behaviours. (View Post)

I don’t see what the OBR does, other than being an enforcer of Treasury Orthodoxy on the Chancellor. It was always clear that Osborne introduced it only to trip up the next Labour government politica… (View Post)